2024-12 Monthly Summary: Focused on reliability and clarity for deployment workflows in openstack-k8s-operators/data-plane-adoption. Delivered targeted documentation updates for deploying backend services, migrating databases to MariaDB, and handling fast-forward upgrades on compute services. The updates refine instructions for configuring database connections, verifying service status, managing cell mappings, stopping services, and retrieving topology configurations, reducing deployment errors and onboarding time. Included a commit that updates docs_user/modules from reviews to align docs with current practices.

Month: 2024-11 — Focused on improving data-plane adoption readiness through documentation and upgrade process enhancements in the openstack-k8s-operators/data-plane-adoption repository. Delivered explicit guidance that external compute services must be upgraded before import into the data plane and provided a structured adoption path plus a fast-forward upgrade workflow. In the absence of reported bug fixes, the month prioritized clarifying processes to reduce risk and accelerate onboarding for new compute services. Overall impact: clearer requirements, repeatable upgrade paths, and stronger governance around compute service adoption.