Monthly summary for 2025-10 focusing on measured business value and technical achievements in OpenRailAssociation/osrd. Delivered two critical changes with a clear impact on onboarding, stability, and deployment reliability: - Gateway Configuration Enhancement with Optional Secret Key: Added an optional secret_key field to the gateway configuration in the Helm chart to streamline onboarding by providing a default placeholder for a mandatory value. The secret_key is conditionally added to the gateway configmap, allowing deployments to rely on environment variables if not provided. Commits: 6772f22667457dfc1b704b5a0b0c347f6282b520 (helm: add secret_key to gateway config). - Osrd-Images Helm Values Path Fix: Corrected the image repository path for the osrd-images component in Helm values from ghcr.io/openrailassociation/osrd-edge/osrd-images to ghcr.io/openrailassociation/osrd-stable/osrd-images to ensure the Helm deployment references the stable artifact. Commit: 633b3f05ebf2aa196be1cbe6b46103660db55641 (helm: fix images image in chart values). Overall impact and accomplishments: Improved onboarding speed and user experience by enabling environment-variable-driven configuration, reduced deployment risk by ensuring stable artifact references, and strengthened release stability for the OpenRail platform. Demonstrated capabilities in Helm chart customization, Kubernetes deployment practices, and precise change management via targeted commits. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Helm, Kubernetes ConfigMaps and environment-variable-driven configuration, Helm values management, Git-based change tracking, and focus on release stability and OSS contributions. Business value: faster onboarding, fewer deployment errors, and more predictable gateways in production.