
Andrew Burnes engineered cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows across the cloud-gov/terraform-provision and cloud-gov/cg-site repositories, focusing on DNS management, environment isolation, and developer experience. He automated domain provisioning and DNS routing using Terraform and AWS Route 53, enabling safe feature testing and streamlined onboarding for new sites. In cloud-gov/cg-site, Andrew modernized build environments by upgrading Node.js runtimes and clarifying documentation in Markdown, reducing ambiguity for users and developers. His work emphasized infrastructure as code, DevOps practices, and clear product messaging, resulting in reliable, maintainable systems that improved deployment speed, environment parity, and support scalability without introducing production bugs.

October 2025 performance summary for cloud-gov/terraform-provision: Delivered two key features enabling CMS editor DNS/SSL provisioning and Node.js v22 readiness in ECR. No major bugs reported. These changes enable CMS users to manage publisher.cloud.gov subdomains with secure ACME SSL provisioning and streamline deployments by adding Node.js v22 support, reducing manual setup and accelerating releases. Technologies demonstrated include Terraform provisioning, DNS/ACME SSL provisioning, and ECR repository management.
October 2025 performance summary for cloud-gov/terraform-provision: Delivered two key features enabling CMS editor DNS/SSL provisioning and Node.js v22 readiness in ECR. No major bugs reported. These changes enable CMS users to manage publisher.cloud.gov subdomains with secure ACME SSL provisioning and streamline deployments by adding Node.js v22 support, reducing manual setup and accelerating releases. Technologies demonstrated include Terraform provisioning, DNS/ACME SSL provisioning, and ECR repository management.
September 2025 monthly summary for cloud-gov/terraform-provision: Delivered Test Environment DNS and Routing Configuration enabling deployment and routing of services in the new test environment under test-cio-gov.pages-dev.cloud.gov. Implemented as part of the Terraform provisioning workflow; commit a35db0955d120688ed373ebf93ea655c5cef3dd0 documents the change. This work improves test environment readiness, speeds validation cycles, and strengthens environment parity with production.
September 2025 monthly summary for cloud-gov/terraform-provision: Delivered Test Environment DNS and Routing Configuration enabling deployment and routing of services in the new test environment under test-cio-gov.pages-dev.cloud.gov. Implemented as part of the Terraform provisioning workflow; commit a35db0955d120688ed373ebf93ea655c5cef3dd0 documents the change. This work improves test environment readiness, speeds validation cycles, and strengthens environment parity with production.
Month: 2025-08 — Developer work focused on provisioning infrastructure for new domains in the cloud.gov Pages service, with an emphasis on automation, reliability, and enabling faster deployments. The period delivered a new DNS configuration workflow integrated with Route 53 to support a dedicated subdomain, reducing manual steps and enabling smooth site onboarding.
Month: 2025-08 — Developer work focused on provisioning infrastructure for new domains in the cloud.gov Pages service, with an emphasis on automation, reliability, and enabling faster deployments. The period delivered a new DNS configuration workflow integrated with Route 53 to support a dedicated subdomain, reducing manual steps and enabling smooth site onboarding.
May 2025: Prepared rollout for Public File Storage on GitHub Pages in cloud-gov/site. Delivered a clear announcement of the upcoming feature, documented the benefits of public file hosting and management within Pages, and provided a join-waitlist workflow to enable early adopters and feedback collection. The work establishes the foundation for a user-driven rollout and reduces time to launch once the feature is released.
May 2025: Prepared rollout for Public File Storage on GitHub Pages in cloud-gov/site. Delivered a clear announcement of the upcoming feature, documented the benefits of public file hosting and management within Pages, and provided a join-waitlist workflow to enable early adopters and feedback collection. The work establishes the foundation for a user-driven rollout and reduces time to launch once the feature is released.
This month focused on enabling safe feature testing through DNS-driven environment isolation. Implemented staging and development DNS configuration for Pages by adding CNAME records in Route 53 within the cloud-gov/terraform-provision repository, pointing to production cloud.gov domains to support isolated testing of new features. Changes are fully traceable to a single commit with clear ownership, improving testing parity and deployment confidence across staging and dev environments.
This month focused on enabling safe feature testing through DNS-driven environment isolation. Implemented staging and development DNS configuration for Pages by adding CNAME records in Route 53 within the cloud-gov/terraform-provision repository, pointing to production cloud.gov domains to support isolated testing of new features. Changes are fully traceable to a single commit with clear ownership, improving testing parity and deployment confidence across staging and dev environments.
January 2025 monthly summary: Modernizing the Cloud.gov Pages build environment in cloud-gov/cg-site to align with current runtimes and simplify workflows. Delivered Node.js v20 support for Page builds; updated documentation and configuration examples; deprecated the 'federalist' script in favor of 'pages' to reduce confusion and improve maintainability. These changes improve security, performance, and compatibility with modern dependencies, enabling smoother builds and faster delivery of Page content.
January 2025 monthly summary: Modernizing the Cloud.gov Pages build environment in cloud-gov/cg-site to align with current runtimes and simplify workflows. Delivered Node.js v20 support for Page builds; updated documentation and configuration examples; deprecated the 'federalist' script in favor of 'pages' to reduce confusion and improve maintainability. These changes improve security, performance, and compatibility with modern dependencies, enabling smoother builds and faster delivery of Page content.
December 2024: Delivered a targeted documentation update for cloud-gov/cg-site to clearly state that users have unlimited previews and bandwidth for their sites. No code changes were required; the update was implemented as a minor Markdown text modification to align service messaging with current capabilities. This reduces ambiguity and supports customer onboarding and support scalability.
December 2024: Delivered a targeted documentation update for cloud-gov/cg-site to clearly state that users have unlimited previews and bandwidth for their sites. No code changes were required; the update was implemented as a minor Markdown text modification to align service messaging with current capabilities. This reduces ambiguity and supports customer onboarding and support scalability.
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