Context: I work on a very large contract. The different technical disciplines are broken up into authoritative departments. I'm on Platform Engineering. We're responsible for building application images and deploying them. There is also a Cybersecurity team, which largely sets policy and pushes out requests for patches and such. Before I explain this process I offer this disclaimer: I know this process is crap. I hate it and I'm working very hard to change it. But as it stands now, this is what they ask me to do: We are asked by the CSD team about every 3 months to take the newest CPU base image from WebLogic and run pipelines that build images for each of the apps on a specific cluster. You read that right - cluster. Why? Well, because instead of injecting the .ear file at runtime, they build an image with a very long-ass tag name that has the base image, the specific app and the specific app version on it. These pipelines call to a configuration management database which says "Here is the image name and version" and uses that to make an individual tailored image for that. After that's done, they have a "mass deploy" pipeline which then deploys the snowflake images for dozens of applications into a Kubernetes cluster. Now, this is where I get pissed. I played nice and did the mass build pipeline. However, because its a fucking convoluted process I missed a step and had to re-run it. It takes like 3 hours every time it runs because its Jenkins. (Another huge problem.) This delayed my timeline according to CSD and they were already getting hot and bothered by it. However, after the success of building all those images, I decided this was where I take my stand. I said I would not deploy all these apps to our development cluster. Instead, I would rather that we deploy a few apps and scream-test them with some dev teams. Why? Because we have NO FUCKING QA. We just expect its gonna work. I am not gonna do that. That didn't make CSD happy but they played along until I said I wasn't going to run the mass deploy pipeline on a Friday afternoon on Halloween. They wanted me to run it because "It's just dev" and "It's no big deal". To me, it is a big deal, because if we plan to promote to the test cluster on Monday, I want more time from the devs to give me feedback. I want testing of the pods and dependent services. I want some actual feedback that we have spot checked scenarios before they make their way up to prod. Dev would be the place to catch it before it gets out of hand because if we find something we promoted to test is wrong then we now have twice as many apps to rollback. The devs also have families too. I'm not going to put more stress on them because the CSD wanted to rush something out. Anyway, CSD is now tussling with my boss because I unplugged my computer and went home. I am going to play video games the rest of the day and then go trick or treating with my kids. They can have some other sucker do their dirty work. But am I wrong? Didn't I make a mountain out of a molehill? Or am I correct that this is a disaster waiting to happen and I need to draw the line in the sand here and now?