Owain Williams describes a reusable deploy pipeline for Umbraco Cloud, utilizing a shared GitHub Actions workflow to streamline deployment across multiple projects. Each project has a small caller workflow that pins a version and passes credentials. This approach prevents drift, simplifies project setup, and ensures consistent deployment logic.
Owain.Codes shares a solution to speed up Umbraco Cloud deployments, which were taking 20 minutes. By pushing changes to a private GitHub repository and adjusting the project file to set CompressionEnabled to false, deployment times improved to 6 minutes. He advises against pushing directly to Cloud.