- Star: public DNS, TLS, and the entry point users actually type.
- Garlands: Tailscale routing, NodePorts, and the GitOps sync loop connecting the layers.
- Branches: Kubernetes namespaces and workloads that carry the visible services.
- Ornaments: Gitea, Actions, Argo CD, Buildx, Trivy, Gitleaks, Calico, registry, website, demos, and the Gitea app.
- Bells: probes and health checks that make noise before users do.
- Trunk: the Debian control-plane node that holds the platform upright.
- Roots: OpenEBS retained volumes, external SSD storage, Gitea dumps, and restore discipline.
- Gifts: the OCI edge host, Raspberry Pi worker, monitoring ideas, and the improvement backlog.