
Jérôme Francin worked extensively on the redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators repository, focusing on catalog hygiene, operator lifecycle management, and infrastructure stability. Over nine months, he delivered targeted deprecations and removals of legacy Kubernetes operators, aligning the catalog with evolving partner requirements and reducing maintenance overhead. His approach emphasized disciplined change management, using YAML and Dockerfile to update manifests, restore critical CRDs, and enforce image integrity. By consolidating operator lineups and ensuring traceable, auditable changes, Jérôme improved catalog maintainability and security. His work demonstrated depth in DevOps, CI/CD, and Kubernetes, resulting in a leaner, more reliable operator ecosystem for downstream users.
January 2026 (2026-01) — Consolidation and maintainability improvements in redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators. Delivered strategic deprecation and removal of four MinIO operators, aligning with product focus and reducing ongoing maintenance risk. No major bugs fixed this month for this repository; focus was on cleanup and ensuring a clean release baseline.
January 2026 (2026-01) — Consolidation and maintainability improvements in redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators. Delivered strategic deprecation and removal of four MinIO operators, aligning with product focus and reducing ongoing maintenance risk. No major bugs fixed this month for this repository; focus was on cleanup and ensuring a clean release baseline.
Month: 2025-12. Focused on stabilizing the certified-operators catalog by removing deprecated components and reinforcing image integrity. The work reduces ongoing maintenance, mitigates security risk, and improves deployment reliability for customers relying on the redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators repository.
Month: 2025-12. Focused on stabilizing the certified-operators catalog by removing deprecated components and reinforcing image integrity. The work reduces ongoing maintenance, mitigates security risk, and improves deployment reliability for customers relying on the redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators repository.
October 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators: Key feature delivered was the cleanup removal of Oracle Database Operator and all related manifests/metadata; executed a single commit deleting operators/oracle-database-operator directory (commit 217b3fc0468e59cfa1eef4296d383fe09218929f) under case 04131211. This cleanup improves catalog accuracy, reduces maintenance burden, and mitigates risks from unsupported artifacts. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on deprecation and repository hygiene. Overall impact: leaner, more maintainable certified-operators catalog with clearer operator lifecycle. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Git-based cleanup, repository management, case-tracking, and artifact lifecycle policy enforcement.
October 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators: Key feature delivered was the cleanup removal of Oracle Database Operator and all related manifests/metadata; executed a single commit deleting operators/oracle-database-operator directory (commit 217b3fc0468e59cfa1eef4296d383fe09218929f) under case 04131211. This cleanup improves catalog accuracy, reduces maintenance burden, and mitigates risks from unsupported artifacts. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on deprecation and repository hygiene. Overall impact: leaner, more maintainable certified-operators catalog with clearer operator lifecycle. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Git-based cleanup, repository management, case-tracking, and artifact lifecycle policy enforcement.
2025-09 Monthly Summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators. Focused on aligning the catalog with partner needs and simplifying maintenance by decommissioning the Intel Kubernetes Power Manager Operator. Key action: removed the operator and all related configuration, manifests, and definitions in response to a partner request documented in support case 04257014. Change implemented via commit b569306d52f51d2910111fb2390f23ba49832dc5, which documents the deletion of the operators/intel-kubernetes-power-manager directory. Impact: reduces maintenance cost and risk, streamlines the certified-operators catalog, and improves alignment with partner requirements. No additional major bug fixes recorded this month. Skills demonstrated: Git hygiene, change management, partner collaboration, governance and traceability across the release process.
2025-09 Monthly Summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators. Focused on aligning the catalog with partner needs and simplifying maintenance by decommissioning the Intel Kubernetes Power Manager Operator. Key action: removed the operator and all related configuration, manifests, and definitions in response to a partner request documented in support case 04257014. Change implemented via commit b569306d52f51d2910111fb2390f23ba49832dc5, which documents the deletion of the operators/intel-kubernetes-power-manager directory. Impact: reduces maintenance cost and risk, streamlines the certified-operators catalog, and improves alignment with partner requirements. No additional major bug fixes recorded this month. Skills demonstrated: Git hygiene, change management, partner collaboration, governance and traceability across the release process.
July 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators. Focused on deprecation cleanup and catalog hygiene to align with support policy and reduce maintenance surface. Delivered removal of deprecated operator components and consolidated to a supported lineup. No new features beyond deprecation work; improvements are in repository structure, auditability, and customer clarity.
July 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators. Focused on deprecation cleanup and catalog hygiene to align with support policy and reduce maintenance surface. Delivered removal of deprecated operator components and consolidated to a supported lineup. No new features beyond deprecation work; improvements are in repository structure, auditability, and customer clarity.
May 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators: Key fix and restoration of Portworx StorageCluster CRD to restore storage cluster management capabilities in the certified-operators catalog, aligning with CERTPX-15284 and customer expectations. Focused on catalog stability, backwards compatibility, and operational readiness.
May 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators: Key fix and restoration of Portworx StorageCluster CRD to restore storage cluster management capabilities in the certified-operators catalog, aligning with CERTPX-15284 and customer expectations. Focused on catalog stability, backwards compatibility, and operational readiness.
April 2025 monthly highlights for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators focused on decommissioning the Memory Machine Operator per partner request. This cleanup reduces maintenance surface and aligns the repository with current operator strategy, tooling, and support scope.
April 2025 monthly highlights for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators focused on decommissioning the Memory Machine Operator per partner request. This cleanup reduces maintenance surface and aligns the repository with current operator strategy, tooling, and support scope.
March 2025: Key deprecation cleanup in the certified-operators catalog. No major bugs fixed this month. Deleted the hcp-terraform-operator v2.8.1 CRD (AgentPools) and its 2.8.1 directory per partner certification case 04085001. This reduces maintenance burden and user confusion, and simplifies upgrade paths.
March 2025: Key deprecation cleanup in the certified-operators catalog. No major bugs fixed this month. Deleted the hcp-terraform-operator v2.8.1 CRD (AgentPools) and its 2.8.1 directory per partner certification case 04085001. This reduces maintenance burden and user confusion, and simplifies upgrade paths.
February 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators: Delivered targeted quality improvements and strategic deprecations, aligning with the product roadmap toward Helm-driven deployment and reduced maintenance surface. Focused on improving test coverage for graph checks, and eliminating outdated components to streamline releases and future migration efforts.
February 2025 monthly summary for redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators: Delivered targeted quality improvements and strategic deprecations, aligning with the product roadmap toward Helm-driven deployment and reduced maintenance surface. Focused on improving test coverage for graph checks, and eliminating outdated components to streamline releases and future migration efforts.

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