How can I ignore Environment protection on specific job/step?

[rob-straughan]

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Hi,

We have a repo running Terraform, using GitHub Actions for our pipelines. We wanted to use environment protections to Gate our prod environment so that it requires an approval to perform the actual deployment of changes.

The slight snag is that by switching these on, the Terraform plan step that runs to check the contents of our PRs before they are merged now flags up requesting an approver. The environment protection does not appear to have any options to allow me to say that it should only apply when doing the deployment step (which adding an environment means GHA always assumes you are doing, which is a different issue), and not when doing the plan step.

I've tried a number of different ways to try and bypass the rule, but most of those techniques are intended for bypassing branch protection rules, which work somewhat differently.

Any recommendations for this scenario?

Regards,
Rob.

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