December 2024 — Summary for CMS-Enterprise/easi-app Key features delivered: - EKS Deployment Pipeline and Kubernetes Deployment Enhancements: Established a manual EKS deployment pipeline; refactored Kubernetes manifests and deployment scripts; separated configurations; updated frontend image build processes; streamlined deployments of backend, frontend, database, and Minio. Includes externalizing NGINX config via ConfigMap and improved env var handling. - Automated PR Preview Environments on EKS: Automates deployment of PR environments to EKS with per-PR namespaces, builds frontend images, deploys applications, and cleans up resources on PR closure. Exposes ingress URLs for easy access and PR commenting. Major bugs fixed: None reported this month; work focused on feature delivery and stabilization of deployment workflows. Overall impact and accomplishments: Increased deployment velocity and reliability; improved safety of PR testing with isolated per-PR environments; reduced manual toil through automated pipelines; improved configuration management and observability of deployments. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Kubernetes and AWS EKS, Kubernetes manifest refactors, ConfigMap usage for NGINX config, improved env var handling, frontend image build automation, per-PR namespaces, automated PR pipelines, ingress exposure, and PR-based cleanup.

November 2024: Delivered CI/CD deployment automation for the MTO feature branch in CMS-Enterprise/mint-app, enabling automated DEV deployments with coordinated tests, frontend asset builds, and image builds. This reduces feature validation lead times and improves environment parity. Implemented via a GitHub Actions workflow and linked to change MINT-3202 (#1512) for traceability.