https://matijazezelj.github.io/packets-and-regrets/tags/gitops/Recent content in GitOps on Packets & RegretsHugoen-USSun, 19 Jul 2026 20:10:00 +0200https://matijazezelj.github.io/packets-and-regrets/posts/why-the-lab-is-boring-on-purpose/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:10:00 +0200https://matijazezelj.github.io/packets-and-regrets/posts/why-the-lab-is-boring-on-purpose/<p>The current lab is mostly Docker Compose, HAProxy, PostgreSQL, ZFS, and shell scripts.</p> <p>That sentence would have embarrassed an earlier version of me. The previous version ran Talos Kubernetes with Flux because Kubernetes was interesting, GitOps was fashionable, and apparently a family photo library needed a control plane.</p> <p>The cluster worked. It also turned every small operational question into a distributed-systems question. Eventually the useful lesson became obvious: a home lab should optimize for the operator&rsquo;s time, not for the number of CNCF logos in its diagram.</p>