Month: 2026-07 — Summary for openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-infrastructure focusing on backup lifecycle modernization and lifecycle management improvements. Key features delivered: - Backup strategy overhaul to local backups and server removals: Consolidated backup management by introducing local system data configurations for off1/off2 backups, removed references to off2 on scaleway-01, and eliminated outdated NFS mounts; aligns backups with current infrastructure and simplifies configurations. Commits: 01f7856c7e00d06406d356efdffe886ef60d1fdd; 248e236e83c5305647fdf991ca9c1fb9a1ee343f; 9c8899e247b0bc6dd990d3e89a1e66d236ad7b86. - Attic backup reorganization and Sanoid configuration improvements: Relocated old backups to a designated attic sub-dataset and renamed Sanoid configuration sections, adding a dedicated section for old backups to improve organization and lifecycle management of backup data. Commits: af46cb673cbfae04a7af249fa6cfb86380537599; 52402efdbdeef28f0632941a4ed4c2c8cb9e0473; cd63f7f429b0f3d00788affa951348172cfd3f6d. Major bugs fixed: - Eliminated misconfig risks by removing decommissioned backup targets (off1/off2) and references, preventing backups to removed servers. (Related commits: 01f7856c7e00d06406d356efdffe886ef60d1fdd; 248e236e83c5305647fdf991ca9c1fb9a1ee343f; 9c8899e247b0bc6dd990d3e89a1e66d236ad7b86.) - Corrected Sanoid attic backup configuration to ensure reliable lifecycle handling and restore paths. Commit: cd63f7f429b0f3d00788affa951348172cfd3f6d. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Reduced operational risk and maintenance burden; improved backup reliability and disaster recovery readiness; simplified configuration and lifecycle management; aligned backup architecture with current infrastructure. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - ZFS datasets (attic sub-dataset), Sanoid configuration, backup lifecycle design, decommission coordination, infrastructure as code/configuration management, and version-control hygiene.

June 2026: Delivered foundational infrastructure improvements for the openfoodfacts-infrastructure repository, focusing on Nginx configuration overhaul for the OVH proxy and security hardening with Fail2ban. Standardization improved maintainability, reduced configuration drift, and enhanced security, enabling more predictable deployments and faster issue resolution.

May 2026 (2026-05) infrastructure-focused sprint delivering a Scaleway-driven migration, reinforced security, and storage optimization for openfoodfacts-infrastructure. Key deliveries include migrating image and data pipelines to Scaleway (sync images, new image sources, staging dataset adjustments, and NVMe-aligned staging), Nginx enhancements for HTTPS, rate limiting, and a dedicated Scaleway proxy path for the Open Food Facts query service, and comprehensive security hardening (Fail2Ban on the Scaleway proxy, removal of outdated stunnel access with SFTP password login enabled). Storage optimization reduced backups on osm45 NVMe and aligned staging scripts to NVMe data for faster retrieval. These changes collectively improve data access speed, security posture, operational resilience, and cost efficiency while enabling scalable deployment across the Scaleway-based infrastructure.

April 2026 infrastructure summary for openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-infrastructure: Delivered two major infrastructure workstreams focusing on Scaleway-backed backups and security hardening to support reliable migrations and secure image uploads.

March 2026 infrastructure work delivered major reliability, security, and scalability enhancements across Scaleway and OVH environments. Key features included migrations to Scaleway, security hardening, rate limiting, and robust backups, with cleanups to improve operations and traffic routing across environments. Overall, these changes improve reliability, security, and operational resilience while enabling scalable growth and better observability for the Open Food Facts platform.

February 2026 Monthly Summary for openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-infrastructure: Delivered a set of infrastructure improvements across Scaleway and Hetzner that enhance reliability, security, and observability. Highlights include migrating Moji service to Scaleway MongoDB, expanding backup and disaster recovery to support multi-cluster and cross-provider replication, deploying robust Nginx proxies for Prometheus exporters and dashboards, improving error visibility in sanoid_check, and relocating stunnel to enable encrypted connections for Redis/PostgreSQL. Minor Slack onboarding update completed to ensure smooth workspace access.

January 2026 monthly summary for openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-infrastructure: Delivered secure database access via stunnel for PostgreSQL and MongoDB across off-query-net, off-query-org, and Scaleway; authentication delegated to Scaleway, simplifying setup and reducing surface area; routing and deployment improvements to support cross-environment access; improved security posture and maintainability with traceable commits.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-12 focusing on key features delivered, major bugs fixed, and overall impact. The work centers on securing infrastructure and strengthening backup governance for Scaleway deployments in openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-infrastructure, delivering measurable business value through improved security, reliability, and operational agility.

November 2025 monthly summary for openfoodfacts-infrastructure focused on backup reliability and manageability. Implemented ZFS/Sanoid backup management enhancements for Hetzner-02, including refined snapshot handling, new dataset templates, and an ignore-backups option to exclude specific directories from ZFS checks. Commit references: 90de69101c8423efdc1c0b26ccb7aa3aff4200c3; 8cc9635e4e7cbbd9a86966d90b8970118ae48bbf. Business impact includes reduced backup drift, improved restore points, and streamlined maintenance across Hetzner deployments.

October 2025 monthly summary for the openfoodfacts infrastructure work focused on security hardening and certificate management for the Folksonomy API. Delivered automated HTTPS redirection and updated certificate path handling to support renewed certificate management across folksonomy subdomains.

September 2025: OpenFoodFacts Infrastructure – security, reliability, and operability improvements focused on enabling secure, scalable API usage, stable routing for JSON endpoints, enhanced monitoring access controls, and reinforced backup resilience. Work emphasized business value through streamlined machine-to-machine interactions, safer metrics exposure, and robust data durability.

Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on infrastructure work that enhances reliability, onboarding, and cross-origin API behavior.

July 2025 infrastructure work focused on reliability, security, and correct routing for Open Food Facts deployments. Key deliveries include automated snapshot health checks via sanoid_check with its own timer, decoupled from sanoid and enabled on OVH1; an Nginx reverse proxy setup for the recipe-estimator service on .net and .org domains with SSL termination, logging, and HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects; fixes to ensure production URLs serve content from the correct environment (proxy_pass corrected to 10.1.0.201); and a server_name typo correction for Folksonomy to route requests properly to the API. These changes improve uptime, routing accuracy, and security posture, while simplifying maintenance and monitoring.

June 2025 infrastructure work focused on reliability, data integrity, and staging reliability for the openfoodfacts-infrastructure repo. Key changes included cleanup of backup scope and stabilization of the cloning workflow in staging, resulting in fewer data handling discrepancies and reduced provisioning risk.

May 2025 highlights for openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-infrastructure: Delivered security hardening, observability improvements, and expanded metrics exposure via Nginx reverse proxy; implemented essential runtime and network reliability fixes; and updated the Slack invite to streamline community onboarding. Overall impact includes improved security posture, faster debugging and incident response, more robust metrics exposure with authentication, and greater reliability in backups and DNS resolution. These changes strengthen operational stability and scalability while enhancing community engagement.

April 2025 monthly summary for openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server: Focused on stabilizing facet-related redirects by introducing extension-aware URL handling to ensure correct file extensions are appended to redirected URLs, improving content-type handling and reducing edge-case failures. The change improves API reliability for facet endpoints and enhances developer experience when integrating with the service.

OpenFoodFacts Infrastructure – March 2025: Delivered two critical mitigations focused on security hardening and startup reliability. These changes reduce exposure of internal endpoints to external traffic and ensure services initialize reliably even when the network is unavailable during boot, improving stability and reducing incident risk.

February 2025: Strengthened security, reliability, and observability for the openfoodfacts-infrastructure. Delivered five key capabilities that reduce risk, improve uptime, and enable faster incident response. Key features delivered: - Fail2Ban configuration enhancements and security hardening: improved logging, bot detection, ignore-ip logic, WordPress protection, and reorganization. Commits include: 1da5ab757cde3e0369328a02c77885bfe8798cf7; bd3dc8fb79cc664d8d292bf2374f9908728415cf; 0af0eaeff3941fa11477e07111a066ed30be3e00; a1b0b327336b90552336297f69aad7278c3b0ff0; c161be990448a31ca22e43a67edcf03877bf2690; 893b2abe6342833195479b0cde561c321c77afdf - Image request handling and abuse protection: block abusive CloudFront requests and optimize image delivery with a dedicated image handling configuration including rate limiting, caching, and SSL. Commits: 59d19254d665071b8459e301477d4636a76f3e39; 4b3769386a178ce0e86fe73d8eb109ea3aa65ba7 - Nginx deployment reliability and environment overrides: ensure Nginx starts reliably by delaying startup until ZFS and network are ready and provide an environment-specific override symlink for ovh3. Commit: c27241dd62d69e6258b599c667c375942d31d883 - Prometheus health endpoint exposure for monitoring: health endpoint exposed without authentication and auth configured accordingly. Commit: 0031b39cd72c40eb1857422d6cd03358cc5008a5 - ZFS and replication tooling fixes: fix ZFS-related script targeting and refine replication pruning to correctly handle syncoid snapshots. Commits: bb3c876e51d7f2ffd4c355f800110897030be528; 3a0d0677347d699f3802b2f839cec39ffd8c7a48 Major bugs fixed: - ZFS-related script targeting and replication pruning improvements to ensure reliable replication workflows. Commits listed above. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Strengthened security posture, reduced abuse, improved uptime, and enhanced monitoring visibility. Enabled faster incident response and easier capacity planning. - Demonstrated end-to-end infrastructure automation skills across Linux security, Nginx, ZFS, and Prometheus-based observability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Security hardening (Fail2Ban), nginx-based delivery optimization, ZFS and syncoid replication tooling, Prometheus health checks, environment overrides, and tuning for reliability.

Openfoodfacts-infrastructure — January 2025: Delivered notable improvements across observability, security hardening, infra/testing readiness, and data retention. Key outcomes: Prometheus metrics exposure for the apache-priority service with a dedicated 4xx/5xx error log; security hardening including Fail2ban on Debian 12, nginx bad-codes fail2ban, nftables rules for the off2 reverse proxy, IPv6 support, and SSL path corrections; infra/testing readiness via temporary OPFF backend endpoint for Keycloak and nftables rule rename; onboarding and policy updates (Slack invite renewal and anti-crawler messaging); storage optimization with extended Nginx log retention to 730 days and adjusted NVMe snapshot policy. This delivers measurable business value: improved monitoring and faster incident response, stronger defense against abuse, smoother integration testing, and optimized storage usage, while showcasing skills in Prometheus, logging, security tooling, network hardening, and storage tuning.

In December 2024, delivered targeted infra changes for SanoID volume exclusion and fixed a config typo to improve the reliability of backup/snapshot processes in the Open Food Facts infrastructure. The changes enhanced data safety, reduced maintenance risk, and improved clarity around volume exclusion rules.

Month: 2024-11 — Focused on securing and modernizing the OpenFoodFacts infrastructure gateway for authentication and public media access. Delivered an Nginx-based OpenFoodFacts Auth Gateway with SSL termination and reverse proxy to a backend service on port 5600, including selective authentication rules to allow public access to media assets. Implemented fixes to ensure public media endpoints bypass authentication as needed.

Monthly work summary for 2024-10 focusing on reliability, disaster recovery, and onboarding enablement for openfoodfacts-infrastructure. Delivered two major features and significant DR enhancements. Business value: improved community onboarding, stronger data safety, and faster incident response. Technologies demonstrated: systemd-based operational tooling, syncoid-based backup replication, backup template improvements, and OVH snapshot management.