Question

Your team deploys a REST API using a GitHub Actions workflow with three jobs: build, deploy-staging, and deploy-production. Before promoting to production, the team wants an automated load test to run against the staging environment, and the promotion must be blocked automatically if the 95th-percentile response time exceeds 400 ms. The workflow must not require any human interaction for this check. Which approach best implements this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Add a job after deploy-staging that runs the load test, evaluates the p95 metric, and exits with a non-zero code when the threshold is exceeded; make deploy-production depend on that job with needs.

Answer

Add a required reviewer to the production environment so a team member can inspect load-test results before approving.

Answer

Configure a branch protection rule that requires the load-test status check to pass before merging to main.

Answer

Enable a deployment protection rule wait timer on the production environment set to the load-test duration.