Branch deploys

Branch deploys instantly improve deployment safety and your Git flows.

Branch deploys are the final step in a robust CI/CD process: you deploy a branch directly to production after review and CI— but before merging to main.

Cased enables this strategy, with tight integration with GitHub and GitHub Actions. The best practices that Cased encourages here emerged from years of experience at GitHub itself— where the methodology enabled constant deploys to production, easy rollbacks, and final verification of changes.

Using branch deploys with Cased is lightweight and strongly encourages constant deployment, rapid code review (manual, automated, AI-assisted, or all), and leads to a substantial increase in ownership of deploys by developers. It’s impossible to simply “throw the code over the wall”, as the deployment and follow-up responsibility remains with the person who owns the code.

Additionally, branch deploys increase visibility into the release process, as all deploys are tracked and seen by all developers. With Cased, branches can be deployed from the web, from automation, from Slack, or from our API.