Can you smoke test production deploys with Github Actions?

[aegatlin]

I want to use Github Actions to try and run a smoke test against prod, triggered by a successful deployment to production. I know that Github Actions has a on: deployment and on: deployment_status trigger, but it only seems to run at the beginning of a deploy. I want a trigger that occurs on deployment success. Does anyone know how to do this? Are there any examples of how to do this?

(Incidentally, in investigating, I noticed that Nextjs doesn't utilize the notion of smoke tests in their cicd github action :P)

[Timer]

The on: deployment_status trigger should be what you're looking for (this should be triggered multiple times, e.g. once for pending, once for success, etc).

https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows#deployment-status-event-deployment_status

deployment URL is available under the webhook payload as target_url after the state is success

[mikenikles]

@aegatlin Did you get this to work? I've just opened another discussion because that on: deployment_status trigger doesn't seem to work.

See https://github.com/vercel/vercel/discussions/4658.