The DevOps Odyssey, Part 6 — Closing the Loop with GitHub Auto-Tagging
originally posted at LinkedIn at November 13, 2025
In the last chapter, I left a promise — to make the system truly GitOps-native. To bridge the small but important gap between building images and updating manifests.
That loop is now closed.
Every time a Docker image for Job Winner or the photo app is built and pushed, GitHub Actions updates the Argo CD repository automatically. No manual tag edits, no pull requests waiting in the dark. The commit that produces the container now also defines its deployment.
The infrastructure finally breathes on its own.
