Feature: Global continuousDeployment setting to disable automatic CD across all environments

[StefanMaron]

Problem

There is currently no way to disable continuous deployment globally. The only option is to set ContinuousDeployment: false inside each DeployTo<environmentname> block — one entry per environment per repository.

This is a significant gap for anyone who:

• Uses GitHub environments (created manually or by AL-Go) but wants deployments to be purely manual (via Publish To Environment)
• Manages many repositories from organization-level settings (ALGoOrgSettings)
• Wants to set a safe org-wide default and selectively opt specific environments back in

Without this, the only workarounds are:

1. Enumerate every environment name across every repo in ALGoOrgSettings with per-env continuousDeployment: false — fragile, verbose, breaks with new environments
2. Change CICDPushBranches to a dummy value — disables the entire CICD workflow, not just deployment
3. Use GitHub environment branch protection policies — also affects the Publish To Environment workflow

Proposed Solution

Add a top-level continuousDeployment setting that acts as a global default for all environments.

Priority order (lowest to highest):

1. Name-based convention ((PROD) / (FAT) suffix → false, otherwise → true) — existing default
2. Global continuousDeployment setting ← new
3. Per-environment DeployTo<name>.ContinuousDeployment ← existing, still wins

Example usage in ALGoOrgSettings:

{
  "continuousDeployment": false
}

This disables automatic CD for all environments in all repos in the org. Individual environments can still opt in:

{
  "continuousDeployment": false,
  "DeployToProduction": { "continuousDeployment": true }
}

The Publish To Environment workflow is unaffected — it uses type: 'Publish' which ignores continuousDeployment entirely.

Implementation

The change is minimal — 4 lines in DetermineDeploymentEnvironments.ps1 after per-environment settings are resolved:

if ($null -eq $deploymentSettings.continuousDeployment -and $null -ne $settings.continuousDeployment) {
    $deploymentSettings.continuousDeployment = $settings.continuousDeployment
}

Plus adding the setting to defaults and schema. Full implementation in the linked PRs.