towards a better gitops deploy strategy

.gitea/workflows/backend_build-deploy-prod.yaml

@@ -10,15 +10,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Build and push image
     uses: ./.gitea/workflows/workflow_build-image.yaml
     with:
-      tag: stable
+      # sets the tag to the git tag that triggered the workflow - the deployment (configured in a separate repository) will use this tag and be deployed to production by argocd
+      tag: ${{ github.ref_name }}
     secrets:
       PACKAGE_REGISTRY_ACCESS: ${{ secrets.PACKAGE_REGISTRY_ACCESS }}
-  
-  deploy-prod:
-    name: Deploy to production
-    uses: ./.gitea/workflows/workflow_deploy-container.yaml
-    with:
-      overlay: prod
-    secrets:
-      KUBE_CONFIG: ${{ secrets.KUBE_CONFIG }}
-    needs: build-and-push

.gitea/workflows/backend_build-deploy-stg.yaml

@@ -12,15 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Build and push image
     uses: ./.gitea/workflows/workflow_build-image.yaml
     with:
-      tag: unstable
+      # sets a unique tag for each commit in the PR - this gets deployed to a separate application instance using argocd
+      tag: ${{ github.head_ref }}-{{ github.sha }}
     secrets:
       PACKAGE_REGISTRY_ACCESS: ${{ secrets.PACKAGE_REGISTRY_ACCESS }}
-  
-  deploy-prod:
-    name: Deploy to staging
-    uses: ./.gitea/workflows/workflow_deploy-container.yaml
-    with:
-      overlay: stg
-    secrets:
-      KUBE_CONFIG: ${{ secrets.KUBE_CONFIG }}
-    needs: build-and-push

.gitea/workflows/workflow_deploy-container.yaml

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      overlay:
-        required: true
-        type: string
-    secrets:
-      KUBE_CONFIG:
-        required: true
-
-
-name: Deploy the newly built container
-
-
-jobs:
-  deploy:
-    name: Deploy
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-
-    - uses: https://gitea.com/actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        submodules: true
-
-    - name: setup kubectl
-      uses: https://github.com/azure/setup-kubectl@v4
-
-    - name: Set kubeconfig
-      run: |
-        echo "${{ secrets.KUBE_CONFIG }}" > kubeconfig
-
-    - name: Deploy to k8s
-      run: |
-        kubectl apply -k backend/deployment/overlays/${{ inputs.overlay }} --kubeconfig=kubeconfig
-        kubectl -n anyway-backend rollout restart deployment/anyway-backend-${{ inputs.overlay }} --kubeconfig=kubeconfig