From eafe56248131884348dea8bd5454d8c2cee98dae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anand Kumar Singh <anandrkskd@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:27:54 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Initital CI automation for GitOps operator support for
 xKS test

assisted-by: ClaudeCode
Signed-off-by: Anand Kumar Singh <anandrkskd@gmail.com>
---
 .github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5b0bbdcae36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+name: Build, Push, Deploy and Test on kind
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - '*'
+
+env:
+  IMG: quay.io/redhat-developer/gitops-operator:pr-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}-${{ github.run_id }}
+
+jobs:
+  deploy-test:
+    name: Build image, deploy to kind cluster and run tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version-file: 'go.mod'
+
+      - name: Log in to Quay.io
+        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+        with:
+          registry: quay.io
+          username: ${{ secrets.QUAY_USERNAME }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.QUAY_PASSWORD }}
+
+      - name: Build manager image with TTL label
+        run: |
+          docker build -t ${{ env.IMG }} --label quay.expires-after=1d .
+
+      - name: Push image to Quay.io
+        run: |
+          docker push ${{ env.IMG }}
+
+      - name: Create kind cluster
+        uses: helm/kind-action@v1
+        with:
+          cluster_name: gitops-test
+
+      - name: Install CRDs
+        run: |
+          make install
+
+      - name: Deploy operator
+        run: |
+          make deploy IMG=${{ env.IMG }}
+
+      - name: Verify Controller Manager deployment is available
+        run: |
+          kubectl wait --for=condition=available --timeout=120s \
+            deployment/openshift-gitops-operator-controller-manager \
+            -n openshift-gitops-operator
+          kubectl get pods -n openshift-gitops-operator

From 67df3df35791fdc7ea3287eaed3c87f364f3b6e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anand Kumar Singh <anandrkskd@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:18:20 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] use kind internal registry to deploy

assisted-by: ClaudeCode
Signed-off-by: Anand Kumar Singh <anandrkskd@gmail.com>
---
 .github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml | 25 +++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml b/.github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml
index 5b0bbdcae36..39d2866d491 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-test.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Build, Push, Deploy and Test on kind
+name: Build, Deploy and Test on kind
 
 on:
   pull_request:
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
       - '*'
 
 env:
-  IMG: quay.io/redhat-developer/gitops-operator:pr-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}-${{ github.run_id }}
+  IMG: gitops-operator:test
 
 jobs:
   deploy-test:
@@ -21,25 +21,18 @@ jobs:
         with:
           go-version-file: 'go.mod'
 
-      - name: Log in to Quay.io
-        uses: docker/login-action@v3
+      - name: Create kind cluster
+        uses: helm/kind-action@v1
         with:
-          registry: quay.io
-          username: ${{ secrets.QUAY_USERNAME }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.QUAY_PASSWORD }}
+          cluster_name: gitops-test
 
-      - name: Build manager image with TTL label
+      - name: Build manager image
         run: |
-          docker build -t ${{ env.IMG }} --label quay.expires-after=1d .
+          docker build -t ${{ env.IMG }} .
 
-      - name: Push image to Quay.io
+      - name: Load image into kind
         run: |
-          docker push ${{ env.IMG }}
-
-      - name: Create kind cluster
-        uses: helm/kind-action@v1
-        with:
-          cluster_name: gitops-test
+          kind load docker-image ${{ env.IMG }} --name gitops-test
 
       - name: Install CRDs
         run: |