Deploy Previews (Per PR Deployments)

Overview

Development teams need a reliable way to evaluate changes before they become part of the main product—whether it’s new features, bug fixes, or updates. Traditionally, this has required setting up a dedicated staging environment, but that approach can be time-consuming, complex, and often doesn’t fully replicate the live environment.

Deploy Previews simplify this process.

With Deploy Previews, your team can:

• Preview, test, and share proposed changes in an isolated, production-like environment
• Run quality assurance (QA) checks before merging changes
• Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) with stakeholders
• Accelerate the feedback loop, reducing delays in development

This ensures changes are thoroughly vetted before they reach production, minimizing unexpected issues and streamlining collaboration.

By enabling Deploy Previews, your team gains a faster, more reliable, and more efficient workflow—without the burden of managing complex staging environments. 🚀

Activating Review Apps for your Knapsack workspace

Before we dive into the details, it’s important to note:

• Enabling this feature requires the creation of a separate Heroku team account for your workspace.
• This is done to ensure that the additional resources consumed by Review Apps (like dynos) are properly managed and isolated to your application.
• We will invite you to your new Heroku team account as a part of this flow.

Once everything is configured, we forward the billing for the additional costs associated with the Review Apps feature to you. This is to ensure that you maintain complete control over your resources and can directly monitor any additional charges.

Please work with your Account Executive or Customer Success Manager to set up the proper billing workflow and gain the necessary approvals.

Getting Started

The following steps will guide you through the process of enabling Review Apps for your Knapsack workspace:

1. Initiating the process: To start the journey towards enabling Review Apps in your Knapsack workspace, please send an email to help@knapsack.cloud. This will create a ticket to track the process.
2. Heroku Team Creation: We will invite you to your new Heroku team account.
3. Repository Access: If we don’t currently have direct access to your repository—we’ll need to collaborate with a member of your team who has administrative access to the repository.
4. Adjusting the Workspace: After securing the necessary permissions, we’ll proceed to tweak your Knapsack workspace to complete the installation process based on your repo provider:

Support

Reach out to your Knapsack representative or email us at help@knapsack.cloud if you run into any issues along the way.