My AI told me the job was done. My container said it was running. My firewall said it was up.
All three were lying.
I run a security homelab out of a fifth wheel in rural Oklahoma. Fifty-some containers, the whole paranoid stack. The thing that almost burned me wasn't a breach. It was a wall of green.
The container that was "running"
It reported running. The orchestrator was happy. The status was green. Behind that green, s6-overlay was crash-looping the actual service, over and over, while the container itself stayed up just fine. The box was alive. The thing the box existed to do was dead. Status said one, behavior said the other.
