6 docs tagged with "topics"

From "production is gone" to "Talos reinstalled, Flux reconciled, persistent data restored" — the documented end-to-end recovery path for the homelab.

End-to-end walkthrough of the homelab's GitOps loop — how a single Renovate-opened pull request becomes a digest-pinned container image running in production, touching every layer of the stack along the way.

When dependency PRs auto-merge and when they wait for a human — the rules that make the homelab safe to upgrade in its sleep, and the audit trail that catches the inevitable bad week.

Rotating the in-cluster age key without breaking Flux reconciliation — walk-through of regenerating the key, re-encrypting every committed Secret, and rolling the cluster onto the new key without downtime.

How a byte written to a Longhorn PVC ends up in three places — warm (Restic to Hetzner S3), hot (Syncthing to the off-site Synology), cold (encrypted WD Elements drives) — and what it takes to restore from each.

Long-form, cross-cutting deep-dives — articles that don't belong to any one section because they explain something that touches several.