Failures
Failures
Not everything goes smoothly. This section documents real failures, outages, and incidents from my homelab, along with the lessons learned and the changes made to prevent them from happening again.
Because if you’re not breaking things, you’re not pushing hard enough.
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Apr 13, 2026
I built a 2,400-line bash backup tool for Kubernetes before realizing a well-maintained open-source operator already existed. Not a total loss, but a lesson in doing your research first.
Apr 5, 2026
Left for KubeCon Amsterdam 2026, power went out at home, and a cascade of failures left my wife without WiFi, water, or any way to fix it
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