Explanations List

This section is the “why” behind the lab, the background that explains how things fit together rather than walking through a step. To build the lab, start with the tutorials; to look something up, see the reference.

Architecture Overview How the homelab fits together, from hardware up to applications and the two ways traffic gets in.

How a change reaches the cluster The GitOps loop behind the lab: how a commit becomes running state, and how Argo CD keeps the two in sync.

Traffic Flow The two paths a request can take to reach an application, public through the Gateway API or private over Tailscale.

Design Decisions The reasoning behind the main technology choices in the lab.

Bitwarden Access Tokens Why the lab uses two Bitwarden tokens, a local bootstrap token and a runtime token stored in Bitwarden itself.