Platform & DevOps·Pipelines, promotion and GitOps
what is deployed lives in a separate repository from the code, and the commit history there is the deployment history.
Config repository
Also calledenvironment repository, deployment repo, manifest repo
The versioned repository holding the desired state of environments, separate from application source. Separating it means a deploy is a commit — reviewable, revertable, auditable — and that the deployment history is a git log rather than a build server's database. The cost is a second repository and the two-commit dance every change requires, which is the standard complaint about GitOps and the standard price of the audit trail.