Not saying you're wrong here, but if that 30 minutes doesn't include running tests it sounds like your Dockerfile is setup poorly. For a ci/cd setup it should take like...a minute at most, if you don't have heavy ML dependencies, etc. Maybe less, depending on how well you cache things.

Thanks, yes probably. Our company is great on adding new functionality but has a huge amount of tech debt including infrastructure and SDLC processes that are really slow.

It's also unfortunate if it does include running tests.