One Unplugged Cable. Two Hours of Debugging. Here's What Broke My Bare Metal Kubernetes Cluster.
I wasn’t doing anything dramatic. No major deployment. No risky configuration change. I was trying to add a NAS to my homelab. New hardware means more devices, more devices means more outlets, more outlets means buying a power strip. What nobody tells you when you start this journey is that cable management becomes its own project the moment hardware starts multiplying. I ran out of space on my existing surge protector so I needed to plug the new one in somewhere close to the router, close to the switch, close to everything. ...