Bamboo: Can I prevent deployment of a plan branch on an environment?

Question

I have configured Plan Branches for certain projects - easiest thing ever and shows a lot of potential.  However, I am not ready to allow feature branches to be deployed to production - in fact, I'd prefer if Plan Branches are only deployed to our Testing environment.

Is there a way to control this?  As you can see from the screen caps, it is equally easy to create a new build when deploying to my QA environment as my Stage environment.

I haven't seen any branch selector, or configuration, that would limit branch deployment per env.

Currently using Bamboo 5.3/4101.

Thanks for your help!

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Matthew Wallace · Answer

I thought about this a bit more and figured out a solution.  I added a script task as the first step in my deployment job.  The script looks like this:

BRANCH_NAME=$1
if [ "$BRANCH_NAME" != master ]; then
  echo "Cannot deploy non-master branch to production!"
  exit 127
fi

I did this as an inline script and then in the arguments section I passed ${bamboo.planRepository.branch}.

This will cause the deployment job to fail if you try to deploy any branch other than master.  Obviously it would be nicer if it just wasn't a choice, but this gets the job done.

Matthew Wallace · Answer

I'd like this feature too.  Can anyone comment that it's definitely not doable with the current Bamboo and I'll put in an enhancement request?