diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
index 7a1e0cb..a7db938 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-cd.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     needs: [health-check-job] # will be fired if and only if health-check-job is passed.
     if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' }} # will be fired if the trigger event is a push event.
+    env:
+      ARTIFACT_LOC1: us-central1
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Code # checking out code.
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -69,24 +71,27 @@ jobs:
         with:
           token_format: access_token
           credentials_json: ${{ secrets.GH_GCR_SERVICE_ACCT }}
-      - name: Set up Cloud SDK
-        uses: google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v1
-      - name: Use gcloud CLI
-        run: gcloud info
-      - name: Install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
-        run: |
-          gcloud components install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
-      # Configure Docker to use the gcloud command-line tool as a credential
-      # helper for authentication
-      - run: |
-          gcloud --quiet auth configure-docker          
+      # - name: Set up Cloud SDK
+      #   uses: google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v1
+      # - name: Use gcloud CLI
+      #   run: gcloud info
+      # - name: Install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
+      #   run: |
+      #     gcloud components install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
+      # # Configure Docker to use the gcloud command-line tool as a credential
+      # # helper for authentication
+      # - run: |
+      #     gcloud --quiet auth configure-docker 
+      - name: Set Image Name
+        id: image
+        run: echo "image_name=app:sha-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT        
       - name: Set Repo Location # steps required to find the image id of our image from GCP Artifactory container registry
         id: repo
         run: echo "repo_name=gcr.io/${{secrets.GKE_PROJECT}}/github-action-aifinance/app:sha-$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
       - name: Login to Google Artifact Registry - using docker login action
         uses: docker/login-action@v2
         with:
-          registry: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev  # /${{secrets.GKE_PROJECT}}/github-action-aifinance  # gcr.io  # or REGION-docker.pkg.dev
+          registry: $ARTIFACT_LOC1.pkg.dev  # /${{secrets.GKE_PROJECT}}/github-action-aifinance  # gcr.io  # or REGION-docker.pkg.dev
           username: oauth2accesstoken
           password: ${{ steps.auth.outputs.access_token }}
       # This example runs "docker login" directly to Artifact Registry.
@@ -100,15 +105,16 @@ jobs:
       #     file: ./Dockerfile
       #     push: true
       #     tags: user/app:latest
-      - name: Build Docker Image 
+      - name: Build Docker Image
         run: |
-          docker build -t app:latest .
-      - name: Tag Image to Artifact Registry 
+          docker build -t ${{ steps.image.outputs.image_name }} .
+      - name: Tag Image to Artifact Registry
         run: |
-          docker tag app:latest us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/atlantean-site-393904/github-action-aifinance/app:latest
+          docker tag ${{ steps.image.outputs.image_name }} ${{ steps.repo.outputs.repo_name }}
       - name: Publish Image
         run: |
-          docker image push us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/atlantean-site-393904/github-action-aifinance/app:latest
+          docker image push ${{ steps.repo.outputs.repo_name }}
+        # docker image push $ARTIFACT_LOC1-docker.pkg.dev/atlantean-site-393904/github-action-aifinance/$IMAGE_NAME
 
   deploy-job: # deploy job is for deploying our code to google cloud cluster.
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest