Add note on renaming environments

[theking2]

Added a note about the inability to rename environments and advised caution when choosing names.

Why:

It is not obvious at this point that renaming an environment later is not possible.

Check off the following:

• A subject matter expert (SME) has reviewed the technical accuracy of the content in this PR. In most cases, the author can be the SME. Open source contributions may require an SME review from GitHub staff.
• The changes in this PR meet the docs fundamentals that are required for all content.
• All CI checks are passing and the changes look good in the review environment.

[welcome]

Thanks for opening this pull request! A GitHub docs team member should be by to give feedback soon. In the meantime, please check out the contributing guidelines.

[github-actions]

How to review these changes 👓

Thank you for your contribution. To review these changes, choose one of the following options:

• Spin up a codespace
• Set up a local development environment

A Hubber will need to deploy your changes internally to review.

Table of review links

Note: Please update the URL for your staging server or codespace.

The table shows the files in the content directory that were changed in this pull request. This helps you review your changes on a staging server. Changes to the data directory are not included in this table.

Source	Review	Production	What Changed
actions/how-tos/deploy/configure-and-manage-deployments/manage-environments.md	fpt ghec ghes@ 3.21 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.17 3.16	fpt ghec ghes@ 3.21 3.20 3.19 3.18 3.17 3.16

Key: fpt: Free, Pro, Team; ghec: GitHub Enterprise Cloud; ghes: GitHub Enterprise Server

🤖 This comment is automatically generated.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Adds guidance to the GitHub Actions “Manage environments” documentation to warn readers that environment names can’t be changed after creation, helping prevent avoidable rework.

Changes:

• Added an in-page note warning that environments can’t be renamed later.

[Sharra-writes]

@theking2 I think a note on this is overkill. Adding it into the reusable under the "enter a name" step should be fine. You can put something like, "Keep in mind environment names can't be changed" anywhere after that first sentence. It should fit in perfectly with all the other caveats.

[theking2]

Two things. At this point users might be more concerned with the contents, variables and secrets they store than the comparably insignificance of naming the environment. They should be as a typo or wrong decision here comes with a huge penalty of recreating the complete environment. Most if not all users intuitively assume even if they realise they've made a typo theu can correct it later on. Both the penalty and breaking a known pattern make this something to alert for.