Phase 6.2 — Automated GitOps delivery with quality gates

Making the pipeline enforce the standard rather than relying on discipline.

Linting, schema validation, security and secret scanning, and a chart render that must pass before anything reaches the cluster. A change that does not meet the standard should fail its gate, not arrive in production and be noticed later.

Scope complete August 2026. The remaining work continues as Phase 8.1 — Delivery gates, enforced.