So, on my team, juniors can create feature branches and easily deploy a feature branch to a ‘staging’ server.

If the feature is deemed good, an ‘admin’ will ‘finish’ the feature and it is merged into develop branch.

Then, when we are ready for a release, the ‘admin’ will create a release and both develop and master are updated.

Updating master triggers a webhook that deploys the release.

For a hotfix, the release step is skipped, but both develop and master are updated, again causing the webhook to trigger a deployment.