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My home Kubernetes cluster ⛵

... managed with Flux and Renovate 🤖

Discord k8s Talos renovate

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Overview

This repository is my home Kubernetes cluster in a declarative state. Flux watches the kubernetes folder and will make the changes to the cluster based on the YAML manifests.

Core Components

🤖  Automation

  • Github Actions for checking code formatting and running periodic jobs
  • Renovate keeps the application charts and container images up-to-date

☁️ Cloud Dependencies

Total cloud costs yearly is approximately ~$150/year.

Directories

This Git repository contains the following directories.

📁 ansible         # Ansible playbooks for various systems managed outside the cluster
📁 hacks           # Contains random scripts
📁 kubernetes      # Kubernetes cluster defined as code
├─📁 bootstrap     # Flux installation to bootstrap cluster
├─📁 flux           # Main Flux configuration of repository
└─📁 apps          # Apps deployed into my cluster grouped by namespace
📁 talos           # Contains the configuration for Talos operating system
📁 terraform       # Contains Cloudflare & Google Compute infrastructure applied automatically by Flux tf-controller

🔧 Hardware

My mash-mash setup of random hardware I managed to acquire. I also have a few SBC RaspberryPi/ODROIDs lying around, but haven't had a lot of good luck running k3s on them, so sticking to amd64 based machines for now.

Device Count OS Disk Size Data Disk Size Ram Operating System Purpose
HP EliteDesk 800 G1 1 512GB SSD 512GB 8GB Talos control-plane
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 2 256/512GB SSD 512GB 16GB Talos control-plane
HP EliteDesk 800 G4 2 256 SSD 256GB 16/32GB Talos worker
i5-2500K/R7 370 (old repurposed gaming computer) 1 120GB SSD N/A 24GB Talos worker
i5-6700K/GTX1080 (repurposed gaming computer) 1 256GB SSD N/A 32GB Talos worker
Synology DS920+ 1 N/A 2x8TB & 2x4TB 20GB DSM 7.1.1 NAS
CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A UPS
Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 10X 1 N/A N/A 512MB EdgeOS Router
Ubiquiti UAP-AC-Lite 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A WiFi AP
PiKVM V4 Mini 1 N/A N/A N/A PiKVM KVM
TESmart HDMI KVM Switch 8 Ports 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A KVM Switch
TP-Link TL-SG1024D 24 Port 1Gbps Switch 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A Network Switch

🤝 Graditude and Thanks

Thanks to all the people who donate their time to the Kubernetes @Home community.

This repository was built off the onedr0p/template-cluster-k3s repository.

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🔏 License

See LICENSE