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Every build succeeded. The dashboard said they all failed.
A CI runner executed flawlessly for a month - images pushed, deploy branches landed - while reporting failure to the dashboard every time. A three-post release sat stranded for a fortnight because the status was believed over the artefacts.
Powered off is a state, not an incident
Three of this fleet's six machines were upgraded, verified healthy, and then deliberately shut down the same night, and the books record a state, not a failure. When a node's entire existence is a rebuildable document, powered off becomes something you schedule, not something you fear.
The bastion is a pattern, not a box
Admin credentials accumulate on whatever machine you happen to work from, until your daily driver is the real control plane of the fleet. A bastion fixes that, not by being special hardware, but by being the one place the keys live and the discipline that they never leave it.