Pull request labels

In your Account Settings, you can configure Release to create environments through the use of GitHub labels.

Under the Source Control tab in Account Settings:

The "Create Environments when the following label is applied" setting is automatically turned on and defaults to a label named "Create Release Environment". You can change the label name if you wish to, then click the Save button.

In GitHub, create a new label that matches the label you saved Release. If you're unfamiliar with this process, please refer to GitHub's managing labels documentation.

Adding a Label in GitHub

Add the label to the pull request and Release will create the environment. If you have comments, statuses, or deployments turned on, Release will update the pull request with information as your environment is created.

Removing the label will not remove the associated environment. You must either merge or close the pull request, or remove the environment from within the Release app.