Add Descriptions and context variables to deployments

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Remove the burden of pre-existing knowledge when looking at application deployments. With descriptions, you can add context about the application within the deployment. You can add things like application owners, link to source control repository, link monitoring dashboards and more. Adding descriptions to deployments can be done simply by adding a description field in the deployment manifest and providing it a string value.

Additionally, it is now possible to define context variables in the deployment file. The context variables are accessible from within webhooks and canary analysis. It is still possible to pass context variables at runtime using the --add-context flag in the CLI. You can read more about passing context variables at runtime here.

description: |
  This is a deployment for the sample application. Github link: https://github.com/armory-io/cdaas-examples
context:
  foo: bar
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Pipeline graph is now available when deploying to a single target

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Certain functionality, such as trigger nodes and the ability to redeploy an old version, are only available on the pipeline graph. With this change these features are available when deploying to a single target.

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  • Added support for pipeline view during deployments to a single target for easier visual tracking.

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New on the deployment graph: Deployment triggers with source context!

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We've added a new element to the deployment graph called a Trigger Node which explains how a deployment was triggered by displaying the source system, initiating person, and trigger type. This allows anyone on the team to immediately know the source of a deployment, including who triggered it, and how it maps back to a pull request or commit.

When triggering from GitHub, additional source details will appear on the Trigger Node: PR title, PR number, commit SHA, branches, and in the event of a push tag trigger, the associated tag. Each element in the Source section is a deep link back to GitHub.

If context variables were passed with the trigger, they will appear in a Context Variables section on the Trigger Node.

Trigger Nodes will automatically show up on your deployment pipelines. Customers who have already configured a GitHub Action will need to adjust the workflow token permissions in their configuration to view the full set of Source Context information. This can be accomplished by adding a permissions block to your workflow, and adding a token to the GitHub action's env block.

Please refer to the updated documentation pages for more information.
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permissions:
  contents: read
  pull-requests: read
  statuses: read

# Add GH_TOKEN to env in the cli-deploy-action step
- name: Deploy
  env:
      GH_TOKEN: '${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}'
  uses: armory/cli-deploy-action@main