During May 2025, Oats focused on enhancing the reliability of virtual machine provisioning in the rancher/dartboard repository. He addressed a critical bug in the Harvester VM creation workflow by introducing a creation timeout to prevent stalled deployments and explicitly disabling IPv6 to ensure consistent network compatibility across environments. Oats also corrected image namespace handling for auto-downloaded images, reducing provisioning failures and improving operator feedback. His work leveraged skills in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and infrastructure as code, utilizing Terraform, HCL, and YAML. The changes demonstrated a targeted, in-depth approach to stability improvements rather than broad feature development during this period.