March 2026 (2026-03) monthly summary for sassoftware/viya4-deployment. This period focused on deployment automation enhancements, security improvements, and lifecycle management capabilities across Kubernetes-driven deployments. Key features delivered include conditional storage deployment for Kubernetes, APIM and legacy credentials support for the order CLI deployment, an Ingress controller upgrade to Contour with lifecycle-tagged assets, and an upgrade of cert-manager to 1.20.0. While there were no separate high-severity bug-fix streams, targeted fixes were rolled into feature commits to ensure correct storage conditioning and EBS CSI driver gating. Overall impact: reduced resource waste and operational risk, stronger credential security, and streamlined deployment workflows that improve reliability and maintainability. Technologies/skills demonstrated include Kubernetes deployment automation, EBS CSI integration, Contour-based ingress, cert-manager lifecycle management, DAC-based order CLI credential handling, and comprehensive documentation improvements.

January 2026 monthly summary for sassoftware/viya4-deployment: Delivered an optional CAS deployment option within the Deployment Automation Controller (DAC), enabling programming-only deployments without starting CAS while preserving CAS resources and enabling safe pod pruning to mitigate related risks. Documentation updated to reflect new configuration variables. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on design, implementation, and documentation to improve deployment flexibility and reliability.

October 2025 focused on improving deployment overlays documentation for the Viya4 deployment workflow. Delivered consolidated README updates that clarify deployment overlays and the DEPLOY: false setting in Ansible vars.yaml, ensuring users can customize overlays correctly and avoid misconfigurations. All work centered in sassoftware/viya4-deployment with a series of documentation-only commits to standardize site-config notes.

In August 2025, delivered a focused documentation fix for the Metrics Server in the viya4-deployment repository. Corrected inaccurate documentation URLs for Metrics Server configuration variables, ensuring the Helm chart and Artifact Hub listings point to the correct resources. This aligns docs with actual resources, supports smoother deployments, and reduces user confusion and potential misconfigurations.

July 2025: Delivered an upgrade of AWS EKS cluster configuration in sassoftware/viya4-iac-aws to support Kubernetes v1.32 and AL2023 as the CPU type. The change ensures compatibility with newer AWS services and security updates, with updates applied across configuration files and tests to validate end-to-end behavior. A related commit indicates AWS 1.33 support was added.