❌ The Death of the Monolith: Tearing down Docker Compose for Kubernetes Orchestration ❌

My Phase 6 matrix utilized a single-node Docker Compose bridge. It was mathematically sufficient for localized testing, but when subjected to trans-continental concurrent payloads, the physical GPU limits of a single machine create a single point of failure. You cannot enforce a B2B SLA on a localized monolith. 👉 Today, I physically tore down the Docker Compose bridge and initiated Phase 7: Distributed Edge Orchestration using K3s (Lightweight Kubernetes). 🤔 The Architectural Decoupling: 🟢 Stateful Ledgers (The Capital): The PostgreSQL billing ledger and the Redis token bucket are now isolated into strict StatefulSet and Service manifests. They persist regardless of hardware degradation. 🟢 Stateless Swarm (The Compute): The FastAPI inference nodes (running the Flan-T5 LoRA matrix) are now deployed as horizontally scaling Deployments. Why Kubernetes over Hyperscalers? K8s strips out cloud-provider bloat, allowing me to orchestrate bare-metal edge nodes with zero ongoing capital expendit