Last week was a classic case of scope creep (for a personal project): I started one task and it instantly spawned five more. On one hand, it's a good learning process; on the other, it feels less productive because my To-Do list got bigger, not smaller.
All I wanted was to set up some security scanner for my homelab K8s cluster. After researching different tools, I spun one up and got a summary report, which was great. Time to start fixing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, right?
Well, I thought I needed to set up alerting first so I know the number does not go up. But for that, I need to set up secret management so alerts can be sent via email. And each part requires quite a bit of reading, research, and evaluation of which solution will work best for my case.
And so, by the end of the week, my To-Do list for the homelab is twice as big as it was when the week started. And I love it. I am learning so much with this project.