We are going to set up the SST Console to auto-deploy our app and manage our environments.

Start by signing up for a free account here.

Create new SST Console account

Let’s create your workspace.

Create SST Console workspace

Next, connect your AWS account.

Connect AWS account in SST Console

This will send you to the AWS Console and ask you to create a CloudFormation stack.

AWS create CloudFormation stack

This stack needs to be in us-east-1. So make sure you use the dropdown at the top right to check that you are in the right region.

AWS Console check region

Scroll down, confirm the checkbox at the bottom and click Create stack.

AWS click create CloudFormation stack

It will take a couple of minutes to create the stack.

AWS CloudFormation stack create complete

Once complete, head back to the SST Console. It’ll take a minute to scan your AWS account for your SST apps.

While it’s doing that, let’s link our GitHub. Click on Manage workspace, scroll down to the Integrations, and enable GitHub.

Enable GitHub integration in SST Console

You’ll be asked to select where you want to install the SST Console integration. You can either pick your personal account or any organizations you are a part of. This is where your notes app repo has been created.

Once you select where you want to install it, scroll down and click Install.

Install SST Console in GitHub

Now your GitHub integration should be enabled. And hopefully the Console should be done scanning your AWS account. You should see your notes app with your personal stage.

Notes app in SST Console

Here you can see the resources in your stage, the logs from your functions, and any issues that have been detected. For now, let’s head over to the Settings > Autodeploy > pick your repo > and click Select.

Select GitHub repo SST Console

Let’s create a couple of environments. This tells the SST Console when to auto-deploy your app.

GitHub repo selected SST Console

We are going to create two environments. Starting with a Branch environment. Use production as the name, select your AWS account, and click Add Environment.

Create branch environment SST Console

Do the same for a PR environment.

Create PR environment SST Console

The two above environments tell the Console that any stage with the name production or starting with pr- should be auto-deployed to the given AWS account. By default, the stage names are dervived from the name of the branch.

So if you git push to a branch called production, the SST Console will auto-deploy that to a stage called production.

Let’s do that next.