September 28, 2026
GitOps, Please Don’t Prune That Yet
Renaming the homelab repository was straightforward. Moving two live Grafana Secrets between Flux Kustomizations meant handing over ownership without letting pruning delete them.
September 28, 2026
Renaming the homelab repository was straightforward. Moving two live Grafana Secrets between Flux Kustomizations meant handing over ownership without letting pruning delete them.
September 9, 2026
I wanted to stop port-forwarding Grafana. Along the way: an overdue chart upgrade, encrypted credentials, and a certificate my browser quite reasonably refused to trust.
September 4, 2026
Deploying kube-prometheus-stack through Flux and Helm, then tracing a pruning cascade through Git and recovering the cluster from desired state.