Configs and documentation for my homelab's k3s cluster
- I had a hosted "lab" in digital ocean. It was expensive. I have lots of compute sitting around at home so thought I'd set a cluster up from scratch
- I'm interested in gitops and creating a fully IaaC powered environment; Ideally I could redeploy my homelabe with nothing more than a few bare vms and deploy commands.
- I want to spend more time in kubernetes and build my skills in deploying self-healing and resilient application infrastructure.
Current hosts are as follows:
| Host Name | Description |
|---|---|
| k8s-lbs-01.machon.local | nginx load balancer for api servers |
| k8s-cntl-01.machon.local | k8s control plane / api server 1 |
| k8s-cntl-02.machon.local | k8s control plane / api server 2 |
| k8s-wrkr-01.machon.local | k8s worker node server 1 |
| k8s-wrkr-02.machon.local | k8s worker node server 2 |
This setup allows for a good chunk bit resiliency; ideally however I would have a fully redundant load balancer in front of my k8s api servers / control planes. Most of these nodes are split across different machines. Some run on bare metal x86 hosts and others are run via vm's on my unraid nas.
Here's a list of deployments in the cluster when it's up and happy
| App Name | Description |
|---|---|
| K8s Dashboard | a dashboard to monitor services deployed to the cluster and resourcing |