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Infisical is Great, ActuallyI run ArgoCD. Full GitOps — if it's not in the repo, it doesn't exist. That's great for everything except secrets, where "if it's in the repo, it might not exist for long either." GitHub secret scanniMar 27 · 6 min readnotjustanna.hashnode.dev
Self-Hosting Everything, Including the Single Point of FailureHomelabbing is genuinely fun. I want to say that upfront, before I tell you about the time I locked myself out of my own infrastructure for an afternoon. The premise is compelling: you have a VM, you Mar 27 · 6 min readnotjustanna.hashnode.dev
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