Workflows may be configured to wait for manual approval. A manual approval is convenient if your release process contains a manual sanity check before releasing to production. In the workflow given below, the test_deploy job is always executed. The prod_deploy job however is only executed after a manual approval:
workflows:
commit:
jobs:
- test_deploy
- hold:
type: approval
requires:
- test_deploy
- prod_deploy:
requires:
- hold
Exercise 3.1 Open the .circleci/config.yml file and add a manual approval step before executing the deploy job