During October 2025, Yiqing Lu delivered deployment image alignment for the milvus-io/milvus repository, focusing on improving reliability and maintainability across environments. Yiqing updated etcd and Kafka image repositories and tags, modifying Helm installation commands to use milvusdb/etcd for etcd and bitnamilegacy/kafka for Kafka. This approach reduced deployment drift and simplified upgrades, ensuring consistent image sources and smoother CI/CD workflows. Leveraging skills in CI/CD, containerization, and DevOps, and working with Groovy and YAML, Yiqing’s work enhanced cross-cluster environment parity and supported future migration plans, demonstrating a solid understanding of Kubernetes, Helm, and Git-based release management.