February 2026 — Key accomplishments in lsst-sqre/phalanx: Delivered UK IDAC development environment configuration and schema update enablement; replicated prod configs to dev for environment parity; adjusted service load balancer IPs to support safer development and smoother deployment workflows. This work reduces risk in schema changes, shortens setup time, and improves testing reliability. No major bugs fixed this month.

Month: 2025-10 Overview: Focused on aligning Tap_schema image versions across environments in lsst-sqre/phalanx to reduce configuration drift and ensure reliable deployments. Key feature delivered: Tap_schema Image Version Alignment Across Environments. Updated image tag for the tap_schema component in both development and production configuration files to ensure the latest version is used across environments. Bugs fixed: None reported this month. Impact: This work improves environment parity, lowers deployment risk, and accelerates delivery of updated Tap_schema capabilities to both dev and prod. Technologies/skills demonstrated: YAML/config management, image tagging/version control, environment parity, release engineering, Git commits.

Month 2025-05: Focused on stabilizing UK ingress routing and updating environment-specific configuration to ensure traffic reaches the ukidacprod environment. Completed a critical IP correction for the ingress-nginx load balancer and validated changes to minimize misrouting and downtime.