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Ten of Pentacles
"The Production Cluster"
Pentacles · Infrastructure▲ Upright +2
The Kubernetes cluster that runs, stays up, and has survived three team turnovers. Nodes auto-scale, secrets are rotated, manifests live in version control, and the runbook is current. The Ten of Pentacles is infrastructure as inheritance — a system built well enough that the people who built it have moved on and it still works.
▽ Reversed -2
The production cluster that nobody understands. The original architect left, the Helm charts reference a registry that no longer exists, and there is a DaemonSet running on every node that nobody can explain or remove. The Ten of Pentacles reversed is legacy infrastructure — not because it is old, but because the knowledge left with the people.