May 2025: Delivered automated Postgres container image management and CI workflow for Cray-HPE/container-images, enabling reliable builds, signing, and security scanning of a Postgres 15 Alpine-based image to support containerized deployments.

March 2025 – Cray-HPE/container-images: Delivered a secure upgrade path for CSM 1.7.0 etcd by adding new Bitnami etcd/os-shell images, Dockerfiles, and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to build, scan, and validate upgrades. This work enables automated upgrade workflows, reproducible image definitions, and improved upgrade reliability.

February 2025 deliverables spanned container-image operations and CSM documentation/release workflows, focusing on upgrading critical components, tightening security, and streamlining upgrade prerequisites and workflows. Key outcomes include a Postgres-operator upgrade to v1.10.1 with CI/CD workflow integration, container image build/sign/scan automation, and adjustments for logical-backup/pgbouncer configurations; security hardening by running spilo-15:3.0-p1 as the postgres user; substantial cleanup and optimization of CSM 1.7 upgrade prerequisites and configurations; and an enhancement to the storage node reboot workflow with a pre-upgrade cleanup-live-images step to ensure clean state before upgrades. These efforts improve deployment velocity, security posture, and upgrade reliability across Cray-HPE container-images and docs-csm repos.

January 2025 performance summary focused on container-image automation for CSI components to enable CS Management Suite (CSM) 1.7 deployment readiness in Cray-HPE/container-images. Delivered automated build-and-publish CI/CD workflows and Dockerfiles to produce and publish container images for CSI components (ceph-csi, csi-attacher, csi-node-driver-registrar, csi-provisioner, csi-resizer, csi-snapshotter), ensuring images are available and properly configured for deployment. This work reduces deployment friction, improves consistency across environments, and accelerates time-to-market for CSI deployments. Commit CASMPET-7299 documents the change to add ceph-csi container images for CSM 1.7.

December 2024 monthly summary for Cray-HPE/container-images. Focused on stabilizing Docker image builds for Ceph-based images by migrating repository sources to CentOS Vault and deprecating obsolete Ceph repos in both the Ceph v17.2.6 Dockerfile path and cephcsi image. This addressed the CentOS Stream 8 EOL issue and ensured builds complete reliably from stable sources. Result: CI/CD pipelines experience fewer build failures, faster release readiness, and better reproducibility.

In November 2024, delivered targeted documentation enhancements for NCN emergency upgrade processes within Cray-HPE/docs-csm, enabling faster, safer incident response and clearer operating boundaries. The documentation supports manual NCN upgrades in emergencies, while reaffirming that regular upgrades remain the responsibility of IUF, and provides concrete steps for different master node configurations, troubleshooting references, and configuration guidance for image IDs and CFS.