Stop Building Every kustomization.yaml in CI

You have a GitOps repo. It has 35 kustomization.yaml files across clusters, components, demos, and tests. You want CI to validate that your manifests actually build. Simple enough — run kustomize build on each one and fail the pipeline if anything breaks. Except it&rsquo;s not that simple. The Problem There are three obvious approaches, and they all have problems. Build everything. Walk the repo,…