☸ Home Kubernetes Cluster ☸

... managed with Flux and Renovate 🤖

  

                 

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

• cilium/cilium: Kubernetes CNI.
• rook/rook: Distributed block storage for peristent storage.
• mozilla/sops: Manages secrets for Kubernetes, Ansible and Terraform.
• kubernetes-sigs/external-dns: Automatically manages DNS records from my cluster in Cloudflare (external) and Bind9 (internal).
• jetstack/cert-manager: Creates SSL certificates for services in my Kubernetes cluster.
• kubernetes/ingress-nginx: Ingress controller to expose HTTP traffic to pods over DNS.
• siderolabs/talos: The Kubernetes Operating System.
• backube/volsync and backube/snapscheduler: Backup and recovery of persistent volume claims.
• democratic-csi: Provides iSCSI and NFS storage provisioning

🤖  Automation

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

Directories

This Git repository contains the following directories under kubernetes.

📁 kubernetes      # Kubernetes cluster defined as code
├─📁 bootstrap     # Flux installation
├─📁 flux          # Main Flux configuration of repository
└─📁 apps          # Apps deployed into my cluster grouped by namespace

🔧 Hardware

My hardware I managed to acquire, sticking to amd64 based machines for now.

Device	Count	OS Disk Size	Data Disk Size	Ram	Operating System	Purpose
Lenovo Thinkcentre M910q	3	256GB SSD	-	32GB	Talos	control-plane
Lenovo Thinkcentre M720q	2	240GB SSD	1TB NVME	64GB	Talos	worker
Lenovo Thinkcentre M920x	2	512GB NVME	1TB NVME	64GB	Talos	worker
Dell PE R720xd	1	500GB SSD	4x4TB HDD - ISCSI/NFS	256GB	TrueNAS SCALE	NAS
			8x800GB SSD - S3
Lenovo Thinkcentre M720q	1	512GB NVME	-	16GB	VyOS 1.4	Router
TP-LINK TL-SG3428X	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Core Switch
TP-LINK TL-SX3008F	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	ToR Switch
TP-LINK TL-SG2210MP	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	PoE Switch
APC SUA1500VA + 2x50Ah	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Network UPS
APC SMC1500IC	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Synology UPS
APC SMC2000I	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Worker UPS
APC SMC2000I + 2x170Ah	1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	TrueNAS UPS

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🤝 Graditude and Thanks

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

🔏 License

See LICENSE