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First-person notes from running k3s, Flux and a shared Gateway in production — documented, not hyped.

$ chapellu draft "every homelab i built died in a cardboard box"
→ hermes opened chapellu/blog-content#4

$ gh pr merge 4 --squash
→ git-sync: content updated (60s poll)
→ blog.chapellu.fr: Every Homelab I Built Died in a Cardboard Box — live

Architecture & Platform Eng.

Every Homelab I Built Died in a Cardboard Box

So I moved mine to a free cloud instance and built it the way I build things at work — IaC, GitOps, and a platform that carries the boring concerns so the applications don't have to. The start of a series on running a production environment in miniature.

Jul 30, 2026 · 8 min read · Production in Miniature · part 0

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