uselagoon/lagoon-charts
Nov 2024 – Sep 2025
11 Months active
Languages Used
YAMLyamlGoMakefileShellmakefileJSONbash
Technical Skills
CI/CDDevOpsGitHub ActionsHelmKubernetesCertificate Management
shreddedbacon
PROFILE
Shreddedbacon
Ben Jackson engineered deployment automation and infrastructure enhancements for the uselagoon/lagoon-charts repository, focusing on Kubernetes-native Helm chart management and CI/CD workflow optimization. He delivered features such as secure TLS-enabled messaging, robust monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and flexible database and backup configurations. Using Go, Shell scripting, and YAML, Ben modernized deployment pipelines by migrating to OCI registries, refactoring Makefile automation, and improving configuration management. His work addressed operational reliability, security hardening, and developer experience, resulting in stable, upgradeable Lagoon environments. The depth of his contributions reflects a strong grasp of DevOps practices and infrastructure as code principles.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
80%Features
Repository Contributions
69Total
Bugs
8
Commits
69
Features
32
Lines of code
10,144
Activity Months11
Work History
September 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Key features delivered include deployment modernization with OCI registry usage for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MinIO, along with enabling MinIO ingress and bucket creation. This work also involved removing Bitnami charts and a refactor to configuration, including an option to disable the external NATS concentrator service to simplify deployments and reduce external dependencies.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Key features delivered include deployment modernization with OCI registry usage for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MinIO, along with enabling MinIO ingress and bucket creation. This work also involved removing Bitnami charts and a refactor to configuration, including an option to disable the external NATS concentrator service to simplify deployments and reduce external dependencies.
September 2025
August 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on business value and technical achievement for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Key features delivered and major fixes: - Chart and dependency upgrade and metadata alignment: Upgraded lagoon-build-deploy subchart to v0.36.0, updated storage calculator to v0.8.1, and fixed chart references/metadata to ensure deployments use correct components. This reduces deployment drift and improves environment consistency. - Lagoon v2.27.0 release readiness: Aligned lagoon-core and lagoon-remote charts with the v2.27.0 release, updating Chart.yaml versions and image tags to reflect the new deployment and enable smoother upgrades. - Improve chart version handling in Makefile: Refactored version comparison logic to use jq for robust handling of pre-release versions, ensuring correct application of rabbitMQHostname and broker.tls.enabled in local-stack environments. - Minor quality/cleanup: Fixed a typo in metadata and applied small refactors to improve maintainability. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased deployment reliability and consistency across environments, enabling safer upgrades and faster release cycles. - Improved local development and verification experience through more robust version handling and correct local-stack configuration. - Clear traceability with explicit commits for each change, supporting auditability and collaboration. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Helm chart management, Kubernetes deployments, and Chart.yaml/version handling - Makefile automation and scripting - Data-driven release readiness and metadata alignment - Use of jq for robust version comparisons and pre-release handling
August 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-08 focusing on business value and technical achievement for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Key features delivered and major fixes: - Chart and dependency upgrade and metadata alignment: Upgraded lagoon-build-deploy subchart to v0.36.0, updated storage calculator to v0.8.1, and fixed chart references/metadata to ensure deployments use correct components. This reduces deployment drift and improves environment consistency. - Lagoon v2.27.0 release readiness: Aligned lagoon-core and lagoon-remote charts with the v2.27.0 release, updating Chart.yaml versions and image tags to reflect the new deployment and enable smoother upgrades. - Improve chart version handling in Makefile: Refactored version comparison logic to use jq for robust handling of pre-release versions, ensuring correct application of rabbitMQHostname and broker.tls.enabled in local-stack environments. - Minor quality/cleanup: Fixed a typo in metadata and applied small refactors to improve maintainability. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased deployment reliability and consistency across environments, enabling safer upgrades and faster release cycles. - Improved local development and verification experience through more robust version handling and correct local-stack configuration. - Clear traceability with explicit commits for each change, supporting auditability and collaboration. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Helm chart management, Kubernetes deployments, and Chart.yaml/version handling - Makefile automation and scripting - Data-driven release readiness and metadata alignment - Use of jq for robust version comparisons and pre-release handling
July 2025
17 Commits • 8 Features
Jul 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-07 highlighting delivered features, fixes, and business impact for Lagoon charts and related components. Focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience to enable faster delivery and better governance of the Lagoon stack.
17 Commits • 8 Features
Jul 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for 2025-07 highlighting delivered features, fixes, and business impact for Lagoon charts and related components. Focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience to enable faster delivery and better governance of the Lagoon stack.
July 2025
June 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 Monthly Summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Focused on improving development observability and deployment workflow hygiene to speed debugging, onboarding, and safe testing in development pipelines.
June 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 Monthly Summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Focused on improving development observability and deployment workflow hygiene to speed debugging, onboarding, and safe testing in development pipelines.
May 2025
7 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Delivered security and stability enhancements to inter-service messaging and deployment tooling, with clear upgrade paths for Lagoon charts and components. Focused on TLS-enabled RabbitMQ connectivity across Lagoon services, compatibility with older core charts, and structured versioning for easier auditing.
7 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. Delivered security and stability enhancements to inter-service messaging and deployment tooling, with clear upgrade paths for Lagoon charts and components. Focused on TLS-enabled RabbitMQ connectivity across Lagoon services, compatibility with older core charts, and structured versioning for easier auditing.
May 2025
April 2025
4 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025Month: 2025-04 — Lagoon charts improvements focused on observability, deployment flexibility, TLS simplification, and local testing improvements. Implemented configurable logs-to-notifications routing, introduced dedicated docker-host labeling, simplified NATS TLS with generic lagoon certs and CA-only TLS option, and added optional Aergia ingress backend with a Makefile flag. These changes enhance alerting, service management, security posture, and testing capabilities, delivering business value through reduced operational complexity and improved environment parity.
April 2025
4 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025Month: 2025-04 — Lagoon charts improvements focused on observability, deployment flexibility, TLS simplification, and local testing improvements. Implemented configurable logs-to-notifications routing, introduced dedicated docker-host labeling, simplified NATS TLS with generic lagoon certs and CA-only TLS option, and added optional Aergia ingress backend with a Makefile flag. These changes enhance alerting, service management, security posture, and testing capabilities, delivering business value through reduced operational complexity and improved environment parity.
March 2025
5 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for March 2025 highlighting Lagoon charts work: delivered API-compatible Helm chart maintenance, improved deployment reliability, and corrected access controls for storage components. Business value centers on stable Lagoon deployments, smoother upgrades, and secure storage operations for customer workloads.
5 Commits • 1 Features
Mar 1, 2025Concise monthly summary for March 2025 highlighting Lagoon charts work: delivered API-compatible Helm chart maintenance, improved deployment reliability, and corrected access controls for storage components. Business value centers on stable Lagoon deployments, smoother upgrades, and secure storage operations for customer workloads.
March 2025
February 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts focusing on delivering secure deployment tooling, stabilized development workflows, and tangible business value. The month centered on enabling TLS for Lagoon-Core messaging, correcting RBAC scoping for leader election, and stabilizing the Dev/Test environment to improve reliability and developer productivity.
February 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts focusing on delivering secure deployment tooling, stabilized development workflows, and tangible business value. The month centered on enabling TLS for Lagoon-Core messaging, correcting RBAC scoping for leader election, and stabilizing the Dev/Test environment to improve reliability and developer productivity.
January 2025
6 Commits • 4 Features
Jan 1, 2025In Jan 2025, delivered substantive improvements to Lagoon charts focusing on observability, security, API discipline, and deployment reliability. Implemented Monitoring and Observability Enhancements across lagoon-build-deploy and storage-calculator with secure metrics endpoints; hardened storage-calculator RBAC and credentials via Secrets; removed deprecated CRDs; migrated image sources to GHCR. These changes improve reliability and security, reduce operational risk, and align with current API usage and CI/CD workflows, enabling faster deployments and safer credentials management.
6 Commits • 4 Features
Jan 1, 2025In Jan 2025, delivered substantive improvements to Lagoon charts focusing on observability, security, API discipline, and deployment reliability. Implemented Monitoring and Observability Enhancements across lagoon-build-deploy and storage-calculator with secure metrics endpoints; hardened storage-calculator RBAC and credentials via Secrets; removed deprecated CRDs; migrated image sources to GHCR. These changes improve reliability and security, reduce operational risk, and align with current API usage and CI/CD workflows, enabling faster deployments and safer credentials management.
January 2025
December 2024
10 Commits • 5 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts focused on delivering deployment simplifications, security improvements, database backend flexibility, enhanced backup/storage capabilities, and TLS readiness with robust testing. The month delivered measurable business value through streamlined deployments, improved secret management, multi-database support, and hardened TLS/posture for production readiness.
December 2024
10 Commits • 5 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts focused on delivering deployment simplifications, security improvements, database backend flexibility, enhanced backup/storage capabilities, and TLS readiness with robust testing. The month delivered measurable business value through streamlined deployments, improved secret management, multi-database support, and hardened TLS/posture for production readiness.
November 2024
4 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. This period delivered key security hardening and release-process improvements with measurable business value. Key features delivered and the resulting impact are outlined below.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for uselagoon/lagoon-charts. This period delivered key security hardening and release-process improvements with measurable business value. Key features delivered and the resulting impact are outlined below.
November 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness89.4%
Maintainability89.2%
Architecture87.8%
Performance80.0%
AI Usage20.2%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
GoJSONJavaScriptMakefileShellYAMLbashjqmakefileyaml
Technical Skills
API IntegrationCI/CDCertificate ManagementConfiguration ManagementDashboardingDevOpsDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaHelmHelm ChartsInfrastructure as CodeJavaScriptKeycloakKubernetes
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