Feature/cd

[zacdezgeo]

Add Staging Environment Variable and Setup Continuous Deployment for Staging and Production

What I Changed:

• Added STAGE Environment Variable:

  • Introduced a new STAGE environment variable to differentiate between deployment environments (staging and prod).
  • The environment variable loads environment-specific configurations, allowing flexible deployments across multiple environments.
  • In the CDK deployment, the STAGE variable is dynamically used to deploy the correct infrastructure based on the target environment.

• Set Up Separate Continuous Deployment Workflows:

  • Created two separate GitHub Actions workflows:
    • Production Deployment:
      • The existing CD.yml workflow now deploys to the production environment only when a commit is pushed to the main branch.
    • Staging Deployment:
      • A new workflow (CD-staging.yml) was created to automatically deploy changes to the staging environment on pull requests targeting the main branch.

How to Test It:

1. Testing the Staging Environment:

   • Create or update a pull request to the main branch.
   • Verify that the staging deployment workflow (CD-staging.yml) is triggered.
   • Check the GitHub Actions logs to confirm that the staging deployment is successful and the API is accessible at the staging domain (staging.space2stats.ds.io).

2. Testing the Production Environment:

   • Wait until merged... @alukach any better ideas?
   • Verify that the production deployment workflow (CD.yml) is triggered.
   • Check the GitHub Actions logs to confirm that the production deployment is successful and the API is accessible at the production domain (space2stats.ds.io).

[alukach]

I am going to call this 'complete'. My goal had been:

• have tests run on every push
• have preview deployments run on all PRs, after tests had completed

By having tests run on every push but also having preview deployments run after tests, tests would run twice (once for the push, once for the PR sync event).

Instead, I have made it so that tests only run on pushes to main or pushes to branches with PRs.