Introducing a new consumer interaction that didn't preexist in production

[bdumant]

Hi,
I am in the following situation:

• in production I have a provider serviceB in version 1 and a consumer serviceA in version 1

          serviceA(1) <- serviceB(1)
  

• now in development, I build versions 2 of service A and B:

  • nothing changes in the existing interaction

  • I add an interaction where service A is the provider and service B the consumer

        serviceA(2) -> serviceB(2)
    

Pacts are created, published and checked. All is green.

Now I want to deploy serviceA(2) to production, but "can I deploy" answers no, because there is no verified pact between serviceB(1) and serviceA(2).

But if I deploy serviceA to production, everything will work fine: serviceB in version 1 is not invoking any API on service A. So why is "can I deploy" failing? How can I handle this situation?

Thanks a lot for any help!