This is a heavily modified fork of Khue's incredible homelab, which I highly suggest you check out. One of the biggest features that drew me to his project was the minimal bootstrapping needed to go from totally blank bare metal to a fully functioning cluster.
- 4 × Dell Optiplex 7050 MFF:
- CPU: A mix of
Intel Core i5-6600T @ 2.70GHz, Intel Core i5-7600T @ 2.80GHz, and one Intel Core i5-7600 (non T model) @ 3.50GHz, - RAM:
16GB - SSD:
128GB - 500GB
- CPU: A mix of
- TP-Link
TL-SG108switch:- Ports:
8 - Speed:
1000Mbps
- Ports:
| Logo | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Ansible | Automate bare metal provisioning and configuration |
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ArgoCD | GitOps tool built to deploy applications to Kubernetes |
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cert-manager | Cloud native certificate management |
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Cloudflare | DNS and Tunnel |
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Docker | Ephermeral PXE server and convenient tools container |
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Gitea | Self-hosted Git service |
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Grafana | Operational dashboards |
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Helm | The package manager for Kubernetes |
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K3s | Lightweight distribution of Kubernetes |
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Kubernetes | Container-orchestration system, the backbone of this project |
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Loki | Log aggregation system |
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Longhorn | Cloud native distributed block storage for Kubernetes |
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MetalLB | Bare metal load-balancer for Kubernetes |
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NGINX | Kubernetes Ingress Controller |
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Prometheus | Systems monitoring and alerting toolkit |
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Rocky Linux | Base OS for Kubernetes nodes |
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Drone | CI and build system |
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Trow | Private container registry |
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Vault | Secrets and encryption management system |