Preview deployment

[weyert]

What problem will this feature address?

I would be interested in having a feature that allow preview deployment based on pull requests

Describe the solution you'd like

When a pull request is raised it will start a deployment to a temporary domain, e.g. pr15-<app>.dokdeploy.com.
Potentially, consider allowing a different wildcard domain for the preview deployments, e.g. *.dokdeploy.app

The deployment will always have predefined set of dokdeploy environment variables defined, similar to how Vercel does it: https://vercel.com/docs/projects/environment-variables/system-environment-variables

Describe alternatives you've considered

Non yet

Additional context

In some projects you need to know the domain the project is hosted on at build-time and not only at runtime

[weyert]

I am happy to try to implement this functionality, if anyone could point to the right places in the code, where I should I start

[Siumauricio]

Hi @weyert , I like the idea we have the following:

We have 3 different ways to define a service

1. Application ( Simple application )
2. Databases
3. Docker compose

According to github docs this is the implementation we should follow https://docs.github.com/en/rest/deployments/deployments?apiVersion=2022-11-28

I'm thinking if we should only provide preview deployments only for applications, since for databases and docker compose could be kinda different and more complicated to handle it

[sangdth]

I'm looking forward to this feature. If you don't mind please loop me in, I would like to give a hand as well as learn more about Dokploy development.