This repo contains my configuration of my homelab.
This is a project I do in my spare time to learn and have fun. I have recently graduated college with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Cal State LA. My specialty is Cloud Engineering and Kubernetes. My homelab is a place where I can learn and practice with industry standards in my own home.
I use Talos Linux for each of my nodes. I have a lot of experience in NixOS, however setting up a complex kubernetes cluster with NixOS instances is cumbersome and Talos offers lightweight, minimal, and provides production grade security right out of the box. Currently I have a 6 node setup with 3 master nodes and 3 worker nodes.
The cluster is hosted on bare metal across four Dell Wyse 5070 thin clients:
- CPU: Intel Pentium Silver J5005
- RAM: 8 or 16 GB DDR4 (Worker | Master)
- Storage: 128 GB SATA
- Network: 2.5 GbE NIC
Everything needed to run the cluster
| Logo | Name | Description |
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Cert Manager | X.509 certificate management for Kubernetes. |
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Cilium | My CNI flavor. eBPF-based Networking, Observability, Security |
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Tailscale | Used to expose public services (without using Public IPs) on my mesh VPN network. |
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CloudNativePG | Database operator for running PostgreSQL clusters. |
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External Secrets Operator | Used to sync my secrets from AWS Secret Manager to my cluster. |
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Flux CD | My GitOps solution of choice. Better than Argo. |
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Grafana | The open observability platform for building custom dashboards for my cluster. |
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Prometheus | An open-source monitoring solution for collecting metrices across my cluster. |
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Tempo | An open-source monitoring solution for collecting and tracking traces in my cluster |
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Democratic CSI Driver | Used to provision Persistent Volumes directly on my TrueNAS. |
User Applications
| Logo | Name | Description |
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Immich | Self-hosted photo and video management service. |
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Actual | Self-hosted personal finance app with bank integration functionality. |
Currently this cluster only really has the foundations laid with the infrastructure basically done. I currently plan to add more apps or anything else I get inspired to do.