The repository is a mono repository for my homelab Kubernetes cluster that implements GitOps practices using FluxCD. It also holds Talos configuration files (generated from Talhelper) for my kubernetes cluster with three control plane nodes & a single beefy worker node.
| Logo | Name | Description |
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FluxCD | GitOps tool built to deploy applications to Kubernetes |
| Containerd | OCI - Container Runtime | |
| Talos | Base OS for Kubernetes nodes | |
| Cilium | CNI - Kubernetes Network Plugin | |
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Helm | The package manager for Kubernetes |
| Ingress Nginx | Ingress controller for Kubernetes using NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer | |
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Kubernetes | Container Orchestration |
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Prometheus | Systems monitoring and alerting toolkit |
| Grafana | Visualize monitoring data via graphs and tables | |
| Loki | Horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system | |
| Thanos | HA Prometheus setup with long term storage capabilities | |
| Cloudflare Operator | Create and manage Cloudflare Tunnels and DNS records as K8s objects | |
| Longhorn | Cloud native distributed block storage for Kubernetes | |
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Minio | S3 compatible object store |
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Sealed-Secrets | Encrypting normal Secrets into a SealedSecret |
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KubeVirt | Run traditional VMs inside Kubernetes as Pods |
| Multus | a CNI plugin that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods | |
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Cert-Manager | Cloud native certificate management |
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Actions Runner Controller | Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners |
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Crossplane | Kubernetes extension for building cloud native control planes |
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Keycloak | Open Source Identity and Access Management |
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Oauth2-Proxy | Reverse proxy server that provides authentication using providers |
| Device | Count | Disk Size | Ram | CPU | Operating System | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom Made PC | 1 | 1TB NVMe | 64GB | 24C/32T | Talos | Kubernetes Worker |
| Mini PC 1 | 1 | 64GB SSD | 16GB | 4C/4T | Talos | Kubernetes Master 1 |
| Mini PC 2 | 1 | 64GB SSD | 16GB | 4C/4T | Talos | Kubernetes Master 2 |
| Mini PC 3 | 1 | 64GB SSD | 16GB | 4C/4T | Talos | Kubernetes Master 3 |
This Git repository contains the following top level directories.
📁 apps # Applications deployed in Kubernetes defined in code for FluxCD (grouped by namespace)
📁 docs # Documentation of deployed components
📁 hack # Useful commands/scripts used (hacks?)
📁 talos # Talhelper generated configuration files & encrypted secrets- Kubernetes Bootstraping using Talos - Talhelper
- GitOps using CD tool - FluxCD
- SSO implementation - Keycloak and some auth proxy
- Backup tool implementation - Velero (most likely)
- Cluster Policy Management - OPA or Kyverno
- Integrated dashboard for homelab - (not sure)
- Observability stack - Metrics, Logging & Tracing
- Security tool implementation - Falco
- Automation - Repo & Component related - Renovate + more
Thanks to all the people who donate their time to the Home Operations Discord community.