Hello How do you usually do your deployments? via the cli or directly on your CICD pipelines (github actions, etc), or maybe a combination of both

I did it in github actions, it was pretty easy.

- uses: pulumi/actions@v6
        with:
          work-dir: <pulumi directory>
          command: up
          stack-name: organization/${{ env.STACK_NAME }}
          cloud-url: <your cloud url>

You can also add comment with the pulumi changes like so

- uses: pulumi/actions@v6
        with:
          work-dir: <pulumi directory>
          command: preview
          stack-name: organization/${{ env.STACK_NAME }}
          comment-on-pr: true
          color: always
          cloud-url: <your cloud url>

https://www.pulumi.com/docs/iac/using-pulumi/continuous-delivery/github-actions/