Pushing a broken manifest to your main branch is a rite of passage, but it's one that becomes significantly more painful when you're running a GitOps workflow with ArgoCD. I've spent far too many late nights staring at a "Sync Failed" status in ArgoCD, only to realize I had a typo in a Traefik IngressRoute or a missing resource limit that Kyverno was blocking. The problem isn't just the error itself; it's the feedback loop. If the error only surfaces during deployment, your CI pipeline has failed its primary job. The goal is to move validation as far left as possible. I started integrating kubeconform into my GitHub Actions workflow to catch structural errors—like invalid API versions or malike fields—before the code even reaches a pull request review. However, structural validation is only half the battle. You also have to deal with policy enforcement. I recently ran into a situation where a Kyverno policy enforcing resource limits on all Jobs was breaking my CloudNativePG (CNPG) deployments.…