My homelab config.
Having no experience managing a production grade Kubernetes platform, setting up a homelab is allowing me to get familiar with popular industry tools and experiment in a safe environment. I am using this as an opportunity to build something different to what I manage professionally so I can build new skills and become a more well-rounded engineer.
- Beelink S12 Mini Pro (16 GB RAM, 500GB SSD)
For ease of reproducability and decalarative configuration, NixOS is my distro of choice for my homelab. The actual configuration can be found in my nixos-config repo.
For simplicity whilst I am starting out, the k3s cluster is made up of a single node. I will be looking to use a multi-node architecture when I am more confident.
- k3s - A lightweight k8s distribution for container orchestration.
- ArgoCD - A continuous delivery tool following declarative, GitOps principles.
- Prometheus / Grafana - For cluster monitoring and visualisation.
- Sealed Secrets - Encrypt kubernetes secret manifests allowing them to be securely pushed to version control.
- rclone - A command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.
- freshrss - A self-hosted RSS feed aggregator.
- excalidraw - A virtual whiteboard.
- linkding - A self-hosted bookmark manager.
- scratch-map - A scratch-off style map to track my travels.