From db47b091b51b3560248324985e5d160378e99571 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MichaelFisher1997 <contact@michaelfisher.tech>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 03:42:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: note capped oci deploy gates

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 README.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Active infrastructure addons from `infrastructure/addons/kustomization.yaml`:
 Chart/source strategy:
 
 - Vendored charts are intentional: `cert-manager`, `traefik`, `kube-prometheus-stack`, `tailscale-operator`, and `rancher` live under `infrastructure/charts/`.
-- External Secrets, Loki, and Promtail use Flux `OCIRepository` sources.
+- External Secrets, Loki, and Promtail use Flux `OCIRepository` sources; deploy gates cap OCI retry time and rely on cached artifacts when available.
 - NFS storage is raw Kubernetes manifests, not a Helm chart.
 - Rancher backup/restore is not part of the current live graph.