If your build pipeline is anything more than a deploy.sh file containing

  docker build -t your-docker-registry/xxx:latest .

  docker push your-docker-registry/xxx:latest

  kubectl rollout restart deployment xxx-deployment

you are a hack, a fraud, an overengineer and someone who should NOT work as software or devops engineer.

As a dev currently working at a company where getting an access request fulfilled can sometimes take weeks, I feel this author's pain.

But it seems like an enormous security hole, even with a codeword "password". The author didn't mention it, but I hope they're using whatever version of their company's E2E email encryption is for these messages.