- Change smoke tests to trigger after deployments complete (not on push)
- Auto-promotion now depends on smoke test success (not duplicate testing)
- Promotion to production depends on staging smoke tests
- Eliminates testing previous deployments instead of new ones
- Creates logical flow: deploy → test → promote
- Remove all custom domain SSL testing and health checks
- Use only canonical Knative domains for all testing
- Update all workflows to use domain secrets for health checks
- Remove kubectl dependencies from deployment workflows
- Update index.html to v2.0.2 for testing canonical domain workflow
- Simplify smoke tests to focus on Knative canonical domains only
- Clean up auto-promotion summaries to remove SSL references
All workflows now test only the canonical Knative domains and avoid
custom domain complexity for a cleaner, more reliable pipeline.
🚀 **New Branching Strategy:**
- develop → triggers dev deployment → auto-promotes to staging branch
- staging → triggers staging deployment → manual approval → promotes to main branch
- main → triggers production deployment
📝 **Workflow Changes:**
- deploy-dev.yml: Now triggers on develop branch
- deploy-staging.yml: Now triggers on staging branch push
- deploy-prod.yml: Now triggers on main branch push
- auto-promote.yml: Tests dev → merges develop to staging branch
- promote-to-production.yml: Tests staging → requires approval → merges staging to main
- build-image.yml: Now builds on all branches (main, develop, staging)
🎯 **Auto-Promotion Flow:**
1. Push to develop → Deploy to dev → Test → Auto-merge to staging
2. Staging deployment → Test → Manual approval → Auto-merge to main
3. Main deployment → Production live!
This provides proper separation between environments with appropriate gates.
