PR Workflow Timeline - Visual Guide

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1

Developer Opens PR

Time: 0 minutes

You make changes to a component (e.g., build-service) and open a Pull Request on GitHub.

What happens:

Code pushed to your branch
PR opened with description
CI automatically triggers

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2

Component CI Tests Run

Duration: 1-2 hours

GitHub Actions runs unit tests, integration tests, and e2e tests for your component.

Tests include:

Unit tests (5-10 min)
Integration tests (10-20 min)
E2E tests with paired changes (1 hour)
Code quality checks

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3

PR Approved & Merged

Time: Few hours to 1 day

After code review and approval, your PR merges to the main branch.

Triggers:

Postsubmit CI job starts
Container image build begins
Tests run one final time

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4

Container Image Built

Duration: 10-15 minutes

New container image is built and pushed to quay.io with multiple tags.

Image tags created:

:latest
:main-abc123d (branch-commit)
:sha-abc123def456 (full SHA)

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5

Renovate Creates PR

Duration: 2 hours (bot scanning interval)

Renovate bot detects the new image and automatically creates a PR in infra-deployments to update the image reference.

PR updates:

components/{service}/base/kustomization.yaml
Image tag: old456e → abc123d
Image digest for security
Links to your original PR

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6

infra-deployments Tests

Duration: 1.5 hours

OpenShift CI provisions a fresh cluster, installs Konflux with your new image, and runs the full e2e test suite.

Test phases:

Provision cluster (5-10 min)
Bootstrap Konflux (15-20 min)
Run e2e tests (30-60 min)
Report results (5 min)

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7

Deployed to Development

Duration: 3-5 minutes

After the infra-deployments PR merges, ArgoCD automatically syncs and deploys your changes to the development environment.

Deployment steps:

ArgoCD detects manifest change
Kubernetes rolling update
Health checks pass
Slack notification sent

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8

Staging → Production

Duration: 1-3 days

After soak time in development, changes are promoted to staging, then after approval and more soak time, to production.

Progression:

Development (immediate)
Staging (after 6-24 hours)
Production (manual approval)

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