Vbs express publish deployment steps if branch protection is turned on

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Vbs express publish deployment steps if branch protection is turned on

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In vbs, if we are using publish with ci/cd pipeline disabled and we enable branch protection on main, after the merge request is approved what are the next steps to deploy/complete the publish in our environment?

I believe we will have to create a deployment job, but just a bit confused because it seems like enabling the branch protection causes a hybrid version of express publish and using ci/cd pipeline. I’ve heard this path in the tech talks but haven’t found documentation/screenshots for the entire process start to finish.