Operations

This part explains how the deployed platform works and how to operate it. Read the easy guide first, then work through the chapters below. Each runbook carries its own prerequisites, checks, and recovery steps.

Chapter	What you will learn	Start here
GitOps & ArgoCD	How changes in Git become running applications	ArgoCD architecture
Temporal	How worker versions roll out safely, and what breaks them	Worker versioning guide
Storage	Where application data lives and how volumes are attached	Storage architecture
Backups & disaster recovery	How data is protected and restored	kopiur backup architecture
Databases	How this lab runs and protects Postgres	Run Postgres here
Networking	How clients and applications reach each other	Network topology
Physical hosts	How the Proxmox hosts and Pi are configured with Ansible, outside Argo CD	Physical hosts with Ansible
Bare-metal nodes	Add a machine or convert a Proxmox host to bare-metal Talos, wipe reused disks, register Longhorn disks	Bare-metal Talos workers
Local AI	The parts of self-hosted AI, how models are served, GPU capacity	Local AI starter kit
Reference & ops	Scheduling policy, observability, and maintenance	VPA and topology

Next, explore the machines that run these services in Inventory. Then use Audits to understand their measured limits, and Ongoing research for possible future changes.