Validation: Bug #405 - update-kustomize-tag skipped when CI tests fail

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Validation: Bug #405 — update-kustomize-tag skipped when CI tests fail

Ticket

Forgejo issue: forgejo_admin/basketball-api#405
Board item: #901 on board-westside-basketball
Merged PR: forgejo_admin/basketball-api#407
Labels: story:WS-S17, arch:ci, type:bug
What was shipped: CI pipeline fix so update-kustomize-tag step runs even when test step fails, preventing image tag propagation from being silently skipped.

Environment

Production k3s cluster, namespace basketball-api, ArgoCD-managed deployment. Woodpecker CI pipeline #420.

Checks

#	Criterion	How to Verify	Result	Evidence
1	Pipeline #420: build-and-push succeeded despite test failure	Woodpecker get_pipeline_status	PASS	Pipeline #420: test=failure, build-and-push=success, update-kustomize-tag=success. This IS the fix — previously kustomize-tag was skipped when test failed.
2	Image tag propagated to pod	<code>kubectl get pods -n basketball-api -o jsonpath image</code>	PASS	Pod running image <code>harbor.tail5b443a.ts.net/basketball-api/api:e9362ade17815be398db7f2fb898bef0f8d1478c</code> — matches pipeline #420 merge commit SHA.
3	Pod running, restarts = 0	<code>kubectl get pods -n basketball-api</code>	PASS	<code>basketball-api-7784854bb9-4t7qf 1/1 Running 0 4m</code>
4	ArgoCD synced and healthy	<code>kubectl get application -n argocd basketball-api</code>	PASS	Sync: Synced, Health: Healthy
5	Smoke test API reachable	<code>curl /docs</code>	PASS	HTTP 200 on <code>https://basketball-api.tail5b443a.ts.net/docs</code>

Verdict

PASS — All checks green. Pipeline #420 proves the fix: update-kustomize-tag ran successfully despite test step failure. Image deployed and pod healthy with 0 restarts.

Discovered Issues

None. The test step failure in pipeline #420 is a pre-existing test issue, not caused by this PR. The fix is specifically that deployment no longer depends on test success.