After CloudBees Previews is installed and configured, you can use it to create preview environments.
| An independent CI pipeline must build and push the reviewable images in parallel. CloudBees Previews does not build them. |
To create a preview environment, you must first commit a change to a source repository that you have enabled for CloudBees Previews and create a pull request (PR).
Then, simply enter a /preview <context> comment on the PR.
Your comment on the PR triggers CloudBees Previews to create the requested preview.
| You can configure CloudBees Previews to automatically create and update your environments, so you do not have to post a comment on the PR. |
You can specify any preview context that you added to the .preview.yaml configuration file.
Use default or do not include a context if you want to request a preview using the default context.
Figure 1. PR comment in GitHub builds a preview of a context named 'docs'
CloudBees Previews replies via your SCM provider with a comment that contains the link to your preview environment.