# Manual Approval before deployment

A Manual Judgement is a stage you can add to a Spinnaker Pipeline whenever you require Human intervention in the process. If you want to have a human verify the deployment before it takes place, then a user can add a manual judgement stage before deployment.

To add a manual Judgement stage:

1. **Go to Continuous Delivery**: When you log in to ISD you would start at the application dashboard, Click "**Continuous Delivery**" and then click "**Spinnaker**".  ISD primarily supports spinnaker applications and allows you to access your spinnaker instance directly from ISD’s UI to help save your team time.

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2\.  Click on the application where you want to build this pipeline: On the spinnaker dashboard, you will see a list of recently opened applications and options to see all your applications or create a new application entirely. For the purposes of this tutorial, we are using the application **“Fresh tutorial”.**

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3\.  Once you click on an application, Click "**Pipelines**" navigate to the pipelines screen and then click "**Create**" button to create a new pipeline as shown in the image below.

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4\. **Create pipeline**: After clicking the "Create" button, you can create a new pipeline. You must name your pipeline. If you have an existing pipeline, you can copy it using the “**copy from**” feature and click "**Create**".

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5\. Once you created the pipeline, below screen will appear and click "**Configure**" button to add stage into your pipeline.

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6\. **Click on “add stage”:** The add stage button is just under the diagrammatic representation of your pipeline. When you click this button, you can select many different types of stages that Spinnaker natively supports.

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7\. **Add manual Judgement stage**: Select “**Manual Judgement**” stage from the drop down menu. You should add each stage and configure them in a logical sequence as Spinnaker does not permit downstream dependencies.

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8\. **Configure Manual Judgement:** Configuring the manual judgement stage allows you to define input options a user can give and how they might give them.

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9\. **Add your deployment stage**: Much like our steps to create a Kubernetes deployment guide, you can either add it as a [text ](https://docs.opsmx.com/quickstart-guide/manage-pipelines/run-deployments-execute-pipelines/deployment-to-kubernetes-namespace-with-manifest-file)or as an [artifact](https://docs.opsmx.com/quickstart-guide/manage-pipelines/run-deployments-execute-pipelines/deployment-to-kubernetes-namespace-with-git-based-manifest).

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10\. **Run your pipeline**: Verify to make sure that it works.