Are you moving that dev image through the lower environments, or the prod one? If it's the prod one, I think your pattern is fine. If it's the dev one I would

Are you moving that dev image through the lower environments, or the prod one? If it's the prod one, I think your pattern is fine. If it's the dev one I would feel like you're opening yourself up to potential issues by confirming things on a different binary than you are publishing to the real world What do you actually do with that dev image?