
Manika Singhal developed and maintained PostgreSQL Docker images for the percona/percona-docker repository, focusing on enterprise readiness, security, and cross-platform reliability. She introduced support for new PostgreSQL versions, integrated Transparent Data Encryption, and enhanced geospatial capabilities by adding extensions like h3-pg and pgrouting. Her work involved refining Dockerfiles using Shell and Dockerfile languages, improving dependency management, and ensuring compatibility across ARM64 and amd64 architectures. By streamlining build pipelines, addressing systemd and authentication requirements, and clarifying image scope, Manika delivered robust, customizable container images that reduced deployment friction and enabled reliable, secure, and feature-rich database environments for diverse customer needs.
April 2026 monthly summary for percona-docker: Delivered geospatial-capable PostgreSQL Docker images and hardened the image build process, delivering tangible business value via geospatial deployment readiness, build reliability, and clearer product scope for customers deploying geospatial workloads. Overall impact: Expanded capability surface for geospatial workloads, improved build reliability, reduced customer confusion, and enabled faster time-to-value for geo-enabled deployments across PostgreSQL versions.
April 2026 monthly summary for percona-docker: Delivered geospatial-capable PostgreSQL Docker images and hardened the image build process, delivering tangible business value via geospatial deployment readiness, build reliability, and clearer product scope for customers deploying geospatial workloads. Overall impact: Expanded capability surface for geospatial workloads, improved build reliability, reduced customer confusion, and enabled faster time-to-value for geo-enabled deployments across PostgreSQL versions.
March 2026: Focus on enterprise readiness and image cleanliness for PostgreSQL containers in Percona Docker. Delivered new Dockerfiles for PostgreSQL 16–18 and removed unintended preloads of shared libraries to improve customization and deployment reliability across enterprise environments.
March 2026: Focus on enterprise readiness and image cleanliness for PostgreSQL containers in Percona Docker. Delivered new Dockerfiles for PostgreSQL 16–18 and removed unintended preloads of shared libraries to improve customization and deployment reliability across enterprise environments.
February 2026 monthly summary for percona-docker: Focused on delivering cross-distribution Dockerfile updates for PostgreSQL 16.12, integrating libssh2 for SSH, and streamlining dependencies. No recorded customer-facing bug fixes this month; all efforts aimed at reliability and readiness for Q1'26 releases.
February 2026 monthly summary for percona-docker: Focused on delivering cross-distribution Dockerfile updates for PostgreSQL 16.12, integrating libssh2 for SSH, and streamlining dependencies. No recorded customer-facing bug fixes this month; all efforts aimed at reliability and readiness for Q1'26 releases.
Delivered security hardening for PostgreSQL Docker images in percona-docker by installing pg_oidc_validator in PG18 builds, strengthening authentication and reducing attack surface. The change aligns with security/compliance goals and is implemented via commit 50cf95698972913015459730ebbaeb6cfe11d0ac, tied to PKG-1258.
Delivered security hardening for PostgreSQL Docker images in percona-docker by installing pg_oidc_validator in PG18 builds, strengthening authentication and reducing attack surface. The change aligns with security/compliance goals and is implemented via commit 50cf95698972913015459730ebbaeb6cfe11d0ac, tied to PKG-1258.
November 2025 monthly work summary for percona/percona-docker. Focused on expanding database compatibility and security with PostgreSQL 18 support and TDE integration in docker images. Key work included updating and aligning multiple PG versions in images, delivering PostgreSQL 18 support (PG18.1) and enabling TDE for PG17/PG18, removing telemetry features, and standardizing Dockerfiles and build pipelines to support TDE packaging. This work reduces deployment friction, improves data security, and broadens platform support for customers using containerized Percona deployments.
November 2025 monthly work summary for percona/percona-docker. Focused on expanding database compatibility and security with PostgreSQL 18 support and TDE integration in docker images. Key work included updating and aligning multiple PG versions in images, delivering PostgreSQL 18 support (PG18.1) and enabling TDE for PG17/PG18, removing telemetry features, and standardizing Dockerfiles and build pipelines to support TDE packaging. This work reduces deployment friction, improves data security, and broadens platform support for customers using containerized Percona deployments.
September 2025 monthly summary for percona/percona-docker focusing on reliability and cross-environment consistency of PostgreSQL Docker images. The main delivery was a systemic fix to include systemd dependencies in the image builds, addressing runtime/build issues and ensuring consistent behavior across environments and architectures.
September 2025 monthly summary for percona/percona-docker focusing on reliability and cross-environment consistency of PostgreSQL Docker images. The main delivery was a systemic fix to include systemd dependencies in the image builds, addressing runtime/build issues and ensuring consistent behavior across environments and architectures.
July 2025: Strengthened ARM64 support and build reliability for the percona-docker repository by fixing Gosu binary selection across PostgreSQL Dockerfiles. The patch switches the Gosu URL to arm64-specific across multiple Dockerfile variants, eliminating incorrect amd64 usage and preventing ARM64 build/runtime issues. This aligns with our multi-arch strategy and reduces CI and deployment frictions on ARM64 environments, delivering more consistent cross-platform images.
July 2025: Strengthened ARM64 support and build reliability for the percona-docker repository by fixing Gosu binary selection across PostgreSQL Dockerfiles. The patch switches the Gosu URL to arm64-specific across multiple Dockerfile variants, eliminating incorrect amd64 usage and preventing ARM64 build/runtime issues. This aligns with our multi-arch strategy and reduces CI and deployment frictions on ARM64 environments, delivering more consistent cross-platform images.

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