YAML Preview pull requests, environment variables and not activating

1

Hi,
I have:

previewsEnabled: true
previewsExpireAfterDays: 2
services:
  - type: web

at the top of my render.yaml file.
I can see this in the YAML overview page:
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However in github when I create a PR I dont get a URL or anything suggested the PR environment/preview from YAML has started

So it seems the requirement for PR previews is picked up from the YAML however no PR preview seems to be being deployed.
I then activated PRs manually in the UI (outside of YAML config) and that created a PR preview, however that didn’t respect the a) price plan I wanted and specified in the YAML

    plan: starter plus
    previewPlan: starter

and nor did it respect the environment variables for the PR preview:

      - key: IS_PRODUCTION
        value: true
        previewValue: false
  • in this case the value in the PR is also tru and the plan is starter plus.

So, how do I get the PR previews, that are managed from yaml to respect these.

Based on this, how can I now turn off manual PR previews in the dashboard, to allow this to PR environemnts, defined in YAML to take over

2

This was resolved in private messaging.

The issue was that the PR did not include a render.yaml file. As well, the concept that helped us resolve this issue was the difference between the Service PR Previews and the YAML Preview Environments.

3

I think i face the same problem.

My render.yaml is in the deployment branch.
My master does not have a render.yaml.

When I try to deploy the application by pulling master into deployment, the preview environment is not created. How should I bypass this?

I cannot put render.yaml in master because i have several deployment branches for different applications, each with their own different render.yaml.

Thank you

4

Responded privately.