with the caveat that i am not at all familiar with the semantics of

docker

or

helm

registries: it seems reasonable to me for

deploy

to potentially trigger publishing as a side-effect. but i also agree with Andreas that:

That is, I would expect all builds etc to be done by the time you do deploy.

… in the sense that you would want to ensure in any implementation that all builds/publishes completely succeeded before proceeding to deployment… but the

@goal_rule

could do that.