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Kubernetes in My Dreams

There was a stretch of days when I was so deep into setting up Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines that I stopped dreaming about anything else. My subconscious basically signed an SLA with GitOps.

Every night, my brain would replay the same questions:

  • Who in the world (obviously someone much, much smarter than me) decided we need pipelines in the first place?
  • Why does a simple code commit have to travel through commit → push → pull request → merge conflict hell before even thinking about deploying?
  • Why do builds always run out of storage right when you’re feeling confident?

And just when the images finally built and got pushed to the registry… along came ArgoCD. The god of auto-deployment. Watching over the Git repo like a divine auditor, ready to summon pods the second it senses a change — or a developer’s sneeze.

You’d think that was the end of it. Nope. Because then came the aftershocks:
“Oops, I forgot one of the 1000 environment variables in the deployment manifest.”
Now the API refuses to start, and I’m staring at kubectl logs like it’s tea leaves predicting my doom.

Nightmares That Don’t End

At night, I’d toss and turn, muttering things like:

  • “The pod is CrashLoopBackOff again…”
  • “Increase the replica count!”
  • “Why won’t the ingress work, even in my dreams?!”

My sleep wasn’t restful. It was like debugging an infinite pipeline where the only stage was “mental breakdown.”

The Maid Incident

One morning, after several nights of Kubernetes-induced insomnia, I absentmindedly turned to my maid and asked:
“Do you know why the API isn’t working? I can’t seem to figure it out.”

She looked at me with genuine concern and said, “Are you drunk?”

No, I wasn’t drunk. Just sleep-deprived, over-caffeinated, and haunted by YAML.

Lessons? None.

People say DevOps is about automation and efficiency. But at 4 AM, when you’re arguing with ArgoCD in your dreams and your maid thinks you’ve lost your mind, you realize something:

Kubernetes isn’t just a tool.
It’s a lifestyle.
And sometimes… it’s a sleep disorder.

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