Decouple monitoring from dev deployment

.github/workflows/push.yaml

@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ jobs:
           helmfile_mods+='\ \ \ \ \ \ - ../.github/ci_config/secrets.yaml.gotmpl'
           sed -i "/secrets.yaml/a $helmfile_mods" environments.yaml
           sed -i '/_install: /s/false/true/' etc/production.yaml
+          # Deploy a minimal deployment accessible on 'localhost:80' with monitoring enabled
           sed -i '/enable_logging_monitoring: /s/false/true/' etc/production.yaml
+          sed -i '/dev_deployment: /s/false/true/' etc/production.yaml
           sed -i '/e2e_test: /s/false/true/' etc/production.yaml
 
   test-helmfile-template:
@@ -99,9 +101,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run end-to-end tests
         run: |
           cd test/features
-          behave -D secrets_file=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/etc/secrets.yaml -D url=https://example.com
-
-      # Enable tmate debugging of manually-triggered workflows if the input option was provided
+          behave -D secrets_file=$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/etc/secrets.yaml -D url=http://localhost:80     # Enable tmate debugging of manually-triggered workflows if the input option was provided
       - name: Manually triggered tmate session
         uses: mxschmitt/action-tmate@v3
         if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' && inputs.debug_enabled }}

environments.yaml.tmpl

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ environments:
     {{ end }}
     {{ if .Values.dev_deployment }}
       - ../mods/disable_tls.yaml
-      - ../mods/disable_monitoring_logging.yaml
       - ../mods/localdev.yaml
       - ../mods/minimal.yaml
       - ../mods/minimal_kafka.yaml.gotmpl

etc/base.yaml

@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ enable_logging_monitoring: false
 # Can be disabled when TLS termination is handled upstream of the on-cluster Nginx reverse proxy.
 enable_tls: true
 
-# Minimal deployment for development (disables TLS, monitoring and logging, sets kafka and minio brokers to 1).
+# Minimal deployment for development (disables TLS, sets kafka and minio brokers to 1 and uses minimal RAM footprint).
 dev_deployment: false
+# E2e test deployment (applies very fast application loop timings for tests).
 e2e_test: false
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------- 00-init.yaml ---------------------------------------------------------