A workflow our team has really enjoyed has been to have our branches mirror what is deployed to our environments.
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master-> production/sandbox -
staging-> staging
Are there any other teams using this kind of approach and how are you handling container tagging and CI/CD?
So far we’ve solved this by tagging our images like staging.nginx.[COMMIT_HASH] and using a DockerHub webhook to hit a service to trigger a deploy. We really don’t like how this rebuilds containers for each environment when the commit hash could’ve just changed and are considering building a service that CI communicates with after the containers have been pushed to DockerHub. We don’t want to re-invent the wheel.