Date: April 6th, 2026
Status: Critical Investigation
Primary Auditor: Antigravity (AI Coding Assistant)
Executive Summary This document provides a brutally honest account of the sequence of technical and judgment errors that led to the repeated destruction of production databases for Immich and Authentik between April 3rd and April 5th.
December 2025 — because “fresh cluster” should not take a day
Every time I’ve needed to spin up a new Kubernetes cluster — new hardware, new lab environment, disaster recovery test — I’ve gone through the same ritual.
