September 2025 monthly summary for sysdiglabs/charts focused on delivering Kubernetes tolerations support for the registry-scanner Helm chart, enabling scanner jobs to run on tainted nodes and improving deployability across diverse Kubernetes environments. The change enhances operator flexibility, reduces manual workarounds, and improves overall reliability of registry-scanner deployments in mixed clusters.

Month: 2025-05 — Focused on improving the usability and clarity of Registry Scanner filtering in the charts repository. Delivered a documentation enhancement for the include/exclude filter, enabling operators to configure scans with confidence and reducing misconfigurations. The change is documentation-only and linked to the commit 9ae8ec50272fef3cac629ef67d1f1977ed8e49d8 (docs: improve include filter description (#2263)). No major bugs fixed in this period for sysdiglabs/charts. Overall impact: improved user experience, faster onboarding for registry scanning workflows, and reduced support effort related to filter behavior. Technologies/skills demonstrated: documentation best practices, precise API/user-focused explanations, strong commit traceability, and repository-level consistency across charts.

March 2025: Security hardening in the charts repository focusing on preventing AWS credentials leakage when using an AWS Service Account with the registry scanner. Delivered a targeted bug fix that ensures credentials are not set and are instead cleared, reducing exposure and avoiding credential conflicts in AWS-based deployments.

February 2025 monthly summary focusing on the sysdigcharts work stream. Delivered a FIPS-compliant registry-scanner chart and tagging workflow in sysdiglabs/charts, with conditional '-fips' tag augmentation and inline scan integration when FIPS is enabled. Renamed the scanOnStart job for clarity and updated the chart version. Updated documentation to describe the new 'fips' parameter and its usage. Fixed FIPS tagging logic to avoid suffix duplication and improved error handling for manual tagging attempts, and strengthened configuration logic for FIPS-enabled images. These changes enhance compliance, security posture, and deployment reliability across environments.

November 2024 monthly summary for sysdiglabs/charts focusing on release engineering and feature delivery. Key action: upgrade of the registry-scanner component to align with latest capabilities and maintain compatibility with downstream deployments. No documented major bug fixes this period.