During July 2026, this developer delivered a custom Kubernetes Networking NodeClass and NodePool for the ministryofjustice/modernisation-platform-environments repository, enabling more granular network isolation and resource management for workloads. Their approach involved using Infrastructure as Code principles with Terraform and HCL, integrating Kubernetes CNI and AWS VPC tagging to ensure deterministic environment provisioning. They addressed deployment pipeline blockers by adding missing ArgoCD variable declarations and hardened infrastructure by scoping subnet selectors to the correct VPC and enforcing the node_pools system for AWS API compatibility. This work resulted in more reliable deployments and improved scalability within a GitOps workflow.