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Migrating From dotenv.org to 1Password in Kubernetes Deployment

originally posted at LinkedIn at November 19, 2025

dotenv.org recently increased its pricing, and at the same time our organization was already consolidating secrets into 1Password for engineering, operations, and automation workflows. Maintaining a parallel .env.vault system became unnecessary and costly — both financially and operationally.

Transferring all the treasures to the new vault

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.

Throwing remote triggers to upgrade Autobot