March 2026 monthly summary for mesosphere/kommander-applications: Implemented Grafana Loki v3 integration testing and deployment enhancements, including end-to-end Loki apptest with install/upgrade scenarios, MinIO-based S3 storage integration, and streamlined configurations. Addressed review comments and removed redundant settings, improving maintainability and readiness for upgrades. Also fixed test stability and deprecated configurations to reduce future debt; this work strengthens release confidence and scalability of Loki integrations.

February 2026 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments across the kommander-applications and charts repositories. Highlights include upgrading Loki to 3.5.5 with post-install validation to ensure write/read operations and deployment reliability, enabling zone-aware ingress handling for Grafana Loki in multi-zone deployments, upgrading Istio Helm to 1.23.8 with multi-gateway support, enhancing RBAC and project-scoped service accounts for Loki deployment, and introducing Istio multi-gateway deployment enhancements with updated Helm charts. These changes reduce outages, improve security, and provide greater flexibility for complex, distributed topologies across environments.