GitLab CI/CD to allow choosing environment for deployment on web UI

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Problem to solve

Deploy an arbitrary branch to target environment like Bamboo.

Target audience

Further details

I have 3 runners, deploy, deploy-dev and deploy-qa, each of those runners deploy to 3 different machines/environments as the name suggests.

The gitlab-ci.yml file links the deploy step to runners using tags:

deploy-dev:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - bash deploy.sh develop $CI_BUILD_TOKEN
  environment:
    name: development
    url: https://billing-dev.btg.co.nz
  only:
    - develop
  tags:
    - deploy-dev

As above, it deploys the develop branch to development environment machine, by running the deploy-dev runner via tag: deploy-dev

What I want to do is to have the ability to deploy test123 branch to development, without making develop branch reset to test123.

I guess this requires that an environment to be linked to a runner?

Proposal

Have a web interface to select a build and deploy to listed environments.

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Similar to "promoting a release to environment in Bamboo", select an environment(which linked to a runner) on web interfact, then select the created releases to be deployed.

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