Yeah this is exactly what I do too, works just fine. You probably already have something like this, but I hacked a bash+yq script that automatically updates all

Yeah this is exactly what I do too, works just fine. You probably already have something like this, but I hacked a bash+yq script that automatically updates all relevant yaml files with the latest image tag. So getting new code running is two lines: make image push deploy kubectl -f somewhere/deploy.yaml