At the moment i’m using the gitlab CI to run all the tests etc on each branch. Then when it merges to master it just deploys. Rather than having a staging branch, we just test every branch and MR. It depends on the git flow you’re using.

But it would be cool if Digital Ocean did something similar to vercel or buddy CI where it adds it’s self to the pipelines in gitlab.

Because we should test master before it’s released but for now the branch only test seem to work fine.

Maybe you want to avoid this path, but I see tests as part of the development process, so that the github action could be triggered by commits to some staging branch. When that’s ok, follow to deploy by merging to the DO main branch.