I have a react app. For QA i will build my app, with QA .env variables, from git tag QA-v1.0.0, which are immutable and bundled into the application build. I will then have an image tagged as QA-v1.0.0.

When moving image QA-v1.0.0 to production i will tag it as v1.0.0. I add a gke secret as a file for my production deployment with production env variables. However the QA variables are still embedded into the application and are not overridden.

Is the correct CICD process to move to production for react to rebuild my git tag QA-v1.0.0 with production environment variables, create a new image of v1.0.0 and continue deploy that to production?