Pattern-based feature branch deployments

Pattern-based branch deployments allow you to automatically deploy branches that match a specific pattern to Amplify. Product teams using feature branch or GitFlow workflows for their releases, can now define patterns such as ‘release**’ to automatically deploy Git branches that begin with ‘release’ to a shareable URL. This blog post describes using this feature with different team workflows.

1. Choose App settings > Branch settings > Edit.

2. Select Branch autodetection to automatically connect branches to Amplify that match a pattern set.

3. In the Branch autodetection - patterns box, enter the patterns for automatically deploying branches.

   • * – Deploys all branches in your repository.

   • release* – Deploys all branches that begin with the word ‘release'.

   • release*/ – Deploys all branches that match a ‘release /’ pattern.

   • Specify multiple patterns in a comma-separated list. For example, release*, feature*.

4. Set up automatic password protection for all branches that are automatically created by selecting Branch autodetection access control .

5. For Gen 1 applications built with an Amplify backend, you can choose to create a new environment for every connected branch, or point all branches to an existing backend.

6. Choose Save.

Pattern-based feature branch deployments for an app connected to a custom domain

You can use pattern-based feature branch deployments for an app connected to an Amazon Route 53 custom domain.

• For instructions on setting up pattern-based feature branch deployments, see Set up automatic subdomains for an Amazon Route 53 custom domain

• For instructions on connecting an Amplify app to a custom domain managed in Route 53, see Add a custom domain managed by Amazon Route 53

• For more information about using Route 53, see What is Amazon Route 53.