May 2025 monthly summary for percona/everest-operator: Key focus on stabilizing CI/CD workflows by correcting Glowworm EKS node pool targeting to ensure CI jobs run on the intended workers, enabling proper scaling and cleanup. Result: improved reliability, reduced CI flakiness, and cost-conscious resource usage.

January 2025 (2025-01): Delivered a unified, debuggable end-to-end CI workflow for the percona/everest-operator repository, establishing a dedicated debug mode (tmate) and an all-in-one environment setup to enable interactive debugging of the CI pipeline. The workflow includes steps for environment setup, tool installation, AWS credentials configuration, EKS scaling, core and upgrade tests, and resource cleanup. It also introduces debugging-oriented workflow renaming and temporary modifications to isolate issues during debugging, followed by removal of the temporary changes to revert to standard operations.