For reasons of experience, all I ever want from a system is that it’s reproducible. I had a vanity website running k8s in a managed cloud. I thought I was back

For reasons of experience, all I ever want from a system is that it’s reproducible. I had a vanity website running k8s in a managed cloud. I thought I was backed up by my provider and original ansible deployment, which was of course developed iteratively. I originally did this mostly to do a practice deployment, and get the workflow. A few years later, it went down and I didn’t notice for a few weeks. It was too unimportant to invest in monitoring, and not worth it to do over. Redeploying gave me lots of confusing errors (note: I also do this stuff for work) Frankly, I was surprised that the provider doing updates would make my years-stable site fall over. I haven’t tried that one again for funsies, yet. It’s the vendor specificity that was my d’oh!