February 2026 (Month: 2026-02) – Monthly developer summary focusing on business value and technical delivery for os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse. Key features delivered: - Google Guest Agent Smoketest: Introduced a smoketest for the google-guest-agent service to verify it is running and to validate network configuration changes. The test exercises the service status and applies config modifications to confirm agent behavior under different network scenarios. This directly improves CI reliability for guest-agent related deployments. - Delivery includes a dedicated automated test scenario mapped to issue progress.opensuse.org #195524. - Commit reference: b4c21cde930a7cb2ee0851bfdf97d0ef9e743178 ("Add smoketest for google-guest-agent service (#24612)") - Repository: os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse Major bugs fixed: - No specific bug fixes reported in this data for February 2026. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Expanded test coverage for the google-guest-agent, enabling early detection of service start issues and misconfigurations in Google environments. - Strengthened CI confidence for the os-autoinst-distri-opensuse suite by validating both service status and network configuration behavior of the guest agent. - The changes align with the ongoing effort to improve reliability of virtualization guest agents in the distribution tests and support faster, more dependable releases. Technologies and skills demonstrated: - Test automation design: smoketest pattern for service verification and network config validation; - OS-level service checks and dynamic configuration testing; - Integration with existing os-autoinst test framework and contribution via a formal commit (with traceability to issue #195524); - Git-based collaboration and repository ownership: os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse.