My Personal Cloud

Referred to, as Vandelay Industries, my personal cloud is based around a kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pi microcomputers mixed with using some public cloud components and other SaaS products.

What I'm looking to accomplish with my infrastructure

• Having fun tinkering!
• Personal data analytics infrastructure
• Try out OSS software in a low-stakes, fixed-cost environment
• Practical for hosting small dumb web app ideas that I tend to concieve

Image belows show some of the hardware used to power a kubernetes cluster consisting of three nodes (1 orchestrator, 2x workers)

Requirements

compute infrastructure

data engineering & analytics

• BI
• scheduling
• ETL

web applications & APIs

• self-made apps
  • golang
  • python
  • htmx
  • react

CI CD

• github runners?

FaaS

• run functions based on event queues?

storage capabilities

databases

file storage

s3-like object storage

Monitoring

Maintainability

being able to re-install the cluster with somewhat ease

Architecture Overview

Right now Vandelay Industries contains:

• Kubernetes cluster
• single-machine VM
• Cloudflare zero-trust to manage access to hosted apps