February 2026 monthly summary for EnterpriseDB/cloudnative-pg focused on expanding end-to-end testing infrastructure and test-engine portability. Key features delivered: - K3d-based end-to-end testing support: added k3d as a Kubernetes engine for E2E tests and updated the setup-cluster script to support Rancher-based environments. CI now runs E2E tests with k3d alongside the existing kind-based tests. Major bugs fixed: - No separate product bugs reported this month; fixes were infrastructure and CI improvements to enable multi-engine E2E testing and environment parity. Commit notes indicate issues were closed as part of the feature work (e.g., #9842, #9836, #9871). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Broadened E2E testing coverage to include k3d, increasing test feedback speed and reliability across Rancher-based deployments. This foundation improves CI scalability and reduces integration risk during releases. - Strengthened cross-engine consistency and portability of tests, enabling developers to run E2E tests locally and in CI with the same behavior. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Kubernetes, k3d, Rancher, and CI workflow orchestration - Script updates (setup-cluster.sh) and CI engine referencing - Test infrastructure design for multi-engine E2E testing Notes: - Commits delivering these changes: 9e8239846533f7e6110378196b7313db201322d8 and aa240d84d9794047499391d620717df1245dc8cf, with Closes references to #9842, #9836, and #9871.