I Moved Everything to Kubernetes, Then Moved It Back

<p>My Kubernetes application moved from my home server to Amazon EKS without an application code change.</p> <p>The platform around it did not.</p> <p>The EKS control plane took

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<p>I wanted a Kubernetes lab that would still be there the next morning.</p> <p>A temporary cluster on my laptop would be useful for testing manifests, but it would disappear when

<p>ArgoCD deploys what's in Git. That's the whole point. It watches a repository, diffs the desired state against the cluster, and reconciles.</p> <p>The question nobody answers

<p>"Docker vs Kubernetes" is one of those framings that quietly sends people down the wrong road. It sounds like a choice between two competing tools, so teams treat it like a

<p>Most homelab content stops at "I installed Proxmox on a NUC." This post goes further — how I built a multi-node cluster running a full Kubernetes platform with GPU inference,

<h1> Production Was Down… But Everything Looked Normal 🤯 </h1> <blockquote> <p>A real debugging story about silent failures and why thinking matters more than tools.</p>

<blockquote> <p>We had seven clusters, sixty developers, and a $40K/month AWS bill no one could explain. Here's the architecture that fixed it — and what we'd do differently.</p>