Implement CI workflow for containerized deployment testing

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A testing workflow must be implemented effectively to verify deployment and pod provisioning, certificate management, and model persistence before any future pull requests will be merged.

Resources

Testing Frameworks

• tokio-test - Async testing framework for Rust
• k8s-openapi - Kubernetes API bindings for Rust
• kube-rs - Kubernetes client and controller runtime for Rust
• kube-runtime - Controller runtime utilities

Chart Testing Tools

• chart-testing - Official tool for testing Helm charts
• helm - Package manager for Kubernetes

Kubernetes Testing Environments

• kind - Kubernetes in Docker
• k3d - Lightweight Kubernetes distribution
• testcontainers-rs - Rust library for TestContainers

CI Integration Tools

• helm/kind-action - GitHub Action for Kind
• helm/chart-testing-action - GitHub Action for chart-testing

Additional Testing Tools

• telepresence - Local development against a remote Kubernetes cluster
• kuttl - The KUbernetes Test TooL
• kubernetes-json-schema - JSON Schemas for Kubernetes API validation

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Containerize Application with Docker

This document outlines the requirements for containerizing the application using Docker to create a production-ready container setup. The components listed below will be added as sub-issues for implementation tracking.

Requirements

• Multi-stage Dockerfile for production builds
• Development container with hot-reload
• Alpine-based image for small footprint
• Proper security configurations

Development Setup

• Docker Compose for local development
• Source code volume mounting
• Environment variables management
• Debug/development tools included

Production Setup

• Minimal final image size
• Non-root user execution
• Health check configuration
• Resource constraints defined

CI/CD Integration

• Automated builds and testing
• Image scanning
• Version tagging strategy
• Registry push workflow

Documentation Needs

• Build instructions
• Development workflow
• Deployment steps
• Environment variables list

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Build: https://hub.docker.com/_/rust

Runtime: https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/distroless/us/gcr.io/cc-debian12