# How to selectively deploy project

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/how-to-selectively-deploy-project/252702>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Tags:** raspberrypi3, docker\
**Created:** [February 10, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/how-to-selectively-deploy-project/252702 "2021-02-10T13:42:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mchonaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mchonaker](https://forums.balena.io/u/mchonaker)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/how-to-selectively-deploy-project/252702/1 "2021-02-10T13:42:43Z")

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Hello, I would like to manually trigger updating to a new release instead of automatic deployment. How would I go about doing that? I have a use case we’re devices can only be restarted/updated when they’re not in use so I’d like to build to balena and then on command push to individual devices.

I am sorry if this is a simple question I haven’t been able to find anything online.

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**Author:** ![rmorillo24](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/rmorillo24/32/10359_2.png) [@rmorillo24](https://forums.balena.io/u/rmorillo24)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/how-to-selectively-deploy-project/252702/4 "2021-02-11T09:31:11Z")

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Hey mchonaker,

What I would do is to use the “pin to a release” feature. With this option you will tell the device to stay on a specific release, so it will not look for any updates while it is on that pinned release. Whenever you want to update it, you just have to pin to a different release, and the updating will take place within the polling interval (max 15 minutes).

Look for the “Pin to a Release” under the Actions button in the device section.

Give it a try and let us know if this is what you are looking for.