GitOps for Bare Metal: Applying SDLC to Physical Hardware
The “Spreadsheet of Doom” You know the one. That “Master Inventory.xlsx” file everyone dumps in the Engineering Drive. MAC Address, IPMI IP, Rack Unit, Status—it’s all there. And it is always, 100% of the time, wrong. You go to provision a “spare” node, only to find it has a dead drive, or the wrong BIOS…