June 2026: Delivered boot enhancements for stackhpc-kayobe-config by integrating the StackHPC Ironic fork to enable diskless boot and architecture-specific virtual media bootloader selection. This enables faster provisioning, reduces hardware dependencies, and improves multi-architecture readiness for automated deployments. Commit 241cce6a8a5ecfbd7d4f6e9205654078684538d2 implements the changes and establishes a reusable boot strategy across environments.

May 2026 monthly summary for stackhpc-kayobe-config focusing on business value and technical achievements across architecture-aware repository management and CI improvements.

Month 2026-04 — This period focused on expanding Rocky Linux aarch64 support and improving image management for stackhpc-kayobe-config. Delivered architecture-aware image builds and tagging robustness to enable DOCA-enabled deployments on modern hardware while reducing image-tagging failures. Key features delivered and major bugs fixed: - Rocky Linux 9 IPA image build for aarch64 (commits 7486274ea3c47ddd2b98ebdae6946bba4ed80df8) - Rocky 9/10 aarch64 overcloud host image support (commit f85ecfe6bbcc42f0837b1f85e1553fde33f8b4aa) - Rocky 9 aarch64 DOCA OFED kernel module support (commit 3ef46eb4d751d02ec6d8b7521e4c2509c5fe0beb) - OpenStack image prefix tagging fix: valkey sentinel exception in kolla-images.py (commit 638e2b8bd341b3295d5fc13dc6af1ed615205d91) Overall impact and accomplishments: - Expanded platform support for aarch64 Rocky Linux with DOCA acceleration, enabling end-to-end deployment on newer hardware and DOCA-enabled workloads. - Improved image tagging reliability, reducing deployment failures due to mis-tagged images. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Rocky Linux, aarch64, IPA images, overcloud image workflows - DOCA OFED kernel module integration - Python-based image tagging logic (kolla-images.py) and Kayobe/Kolla tooling

March 2026: Reliability and CI visibility improvements for stackhpc-kayobe-config. No new features shipped this month; the focus was on fixing a critical bug to propagate multi-arch manifest creation errors to CI, improving visibility and reliability of multi-arch builds.

February 2026 monthly summary for stackhpc-release-train focusing on expanding AArch64 DOCA support and ensuring RHEL 9 repository access. Delivered repository configuration and re-added AArch64 repos in the third_party section to guarantee access to required packages for AArch64 deployments. No major bugs reported this month; changes center on compatibility, packaging, and release-train readiness.

January 2026 monthly summary: Delivered targeted repo hygiene, networking enhancements, and stability fixes across StackHPC repos. The work improved release-train reliability, expanded networking capabilities for Arista environments, and extended architecture support for containerized components, aligning with NGS strategy and broader deployment needs.

In December 2025, delivered targeted improvements across stackhpc-kayobe-config and azimuth to strengthen security hardening, improve federation session handling, and reduce operational risk. Key contributions include a robust CIS hardening update that only processes existing service accounts on non-Kolla hosts, and a configurable SameSite cookie option for federated OIDC session management, enhancing cross-domain persistence and reliability.

November 2025: Delivered three changes in stackhpc/stackhpc-kayobe-config: two bug fixes and a feature update. Key outcomes: improved operational reliability by ensuring only the true OVN leader executes priority alignment, corrected install playbook behavior for non-check runs, and enabled Tentacle support through the Cephadm Ansible collection update. These changes enhance deployment stability, reduce manual intervention, and prepare the stack for expanded orchestration.

October 2025 monthly summary for stackhpc/stackhpc-kayobe-config focusing on features delivered, bugs fixed, and impact. Delivered OVN chassis priority management improvements, safer update workflow, and more robust chassis prefix parsing. Fixed gateway chassis prefix stripping to align priorities with active gateway chassis. Demonstrated strong automation skills in Ansible playbooks and shell scripting, improving reliability across diverse OVN configurations.

September 2025 monthly summary focusing on delivering business value through versioned Erlang repository management and cross-environment RabbitMQ image compatibility, with a clear alignment to upstream Kolla updates and improved build reliability across architectures.

July 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments, major fixes, and business value across two StackHPC repositories. Deliverables include: (1) Erlang packaging reliability on RHEL 9 arm64 by updating the repository URL to the RHEL base, resolving a CentOS Stream 9 divergence and missing libcrypto.so.3 dependency; (2) reintroduction and integration of the epoxy OpenStack repo for CentOS Stream 9 with updated build configuration and selective package exclusions to ensure clean integration; (3) multi-architecture container support for Rocky Linux 9, adding aarch64 builds, updating the GitHub Actions matrix, and introducing a manifest creation/push script to allow a single image tag across x86_64 and aarch64. These efforts broaden platform coverage, reduce deployment failures, and streamline CI/CD for multi-arch deployments.

May 2025 monthly summary for stackhpc-kayobe-config. Focused on updating Kolla image tags for OVS/OVN and related components, packaging improvements, and release documentation. Delivered updated container image tags for Kolla services (Toolbox, Manila, Neutron, Nova, Octavia, Openvswitch, OVN) to newer versions compatible with Rocky Linux 9 and Ubuntu Noble. Updated Openvswitch Pulp repository version on CentOS Stream 9. Added a release note detailing the OVS/OVN updates and their inclusion in the relevant container images. All changes captured in a single change set.

February 2025 monthly summary: Delivered critical stability and reliability improvements across the stack, including a Glance source repositories configuration bug fix in the release train and Caracal-related release enhancements in Kayobe config. These changes reduce outage risk, improve Neutron L3 HA behavior, and streamline the release process across OpenStack components. Also improved release notes formatting to ensure accurate changelog links.

December 2024 monthly summary for stackhpc/stackhpc-kayobe-config: Implemented Conditional IPA Collectors Activation to ensure IPA-related collectors (dmi-decode, extra-hardware, numa-topology) run only during IPA image builds. This optimization reduces needless execution during non-build phases, lowering runtime and resource usage while preserving build integrity. No major bugs fixed this month; existing CI guarantees stability with the new conditional path. Overall impact: faster, more predictable image builds and reduced CI load, enabling teams to iterate on IPA-related features more quickly. Technologies/skills demonstrated include Python-based build orchestration, feature flag/conditional execution, and CI/CD workflow integration.

November 2024 monthly summary for the stackhpc/kolla-ansible project focusing on deployment configuration alignment with the OpenStack 2024.1 release.