Building a Declarative Homelab: Deploying Linkding & Mealie to Kubernetes with Flux CD GitOps

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A practical walkthrough of deploying self-hosted Linkding and Mealie on local Kubernetes using Flux...
> A practical walkthrough of deploying self-hosted Linkding and Mealie on local Kubernetes using Flux CD v2, Kustomize overlays, and automated GitOps continuous reconciliation.

If you have ever spent a weekend setting up self-hosted services using docker compose or ad-hoc kubectl apply commands, you know the inevitable pain: configuration drift, forgotten secrets, missing volume permissions, and that nagging feeling of *"wait, where did I write down that config change?"*

Recently, I dec

Problem

A practical walkthrough of deploying self-hosted Linkding and Mealie on local Kubernetes using Flux...
> A practical walkthrough of deploying self-hosted Linkding and Mealie on local Kubernetes using Flux CD v2, Kustomize overlays, and automated GitOps continuous reconciliation.

If you have ever spent a weekend setting up self-hosted services using docker compose or ad-hoc kubectl apply commands, you know the inevitable pain: configuration drift, forgotten secrets, missing volume permissions, and that nagging feeling of *"wait, where did I write down that config change?"*

Recently, I dec

Outcome

A practical walkthrough of deploying self-hosted Linkding and Mealie on local Kubernetes using Flux...
> A practical walkthrough of deploying self-hosted Linkding and Mealie on local Kubernetes using Flux CD v2, Kustomize overlays, and automated GitOps continuous reconciliation.

If you have ever spent a weekend setting up self-hosted services using docker compose or ad-hoc kubectl apply commands, you know the inevitable pain: configuration drift, forgotten secrets, missing volume permissions, and that nagging feeling of *"wait, where did I write down that config change?"*

Recently, I dec

Evidence

Building a Declarative Homelab: Deploying Linkding & Mealie to Kubernetes with Flux CD GitOps

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