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 in Computer Science from CSU Los Angeles. 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.
Currently I use a custom built home server (Ryzen 9 3900x, 64 GB of DDR4 RAM, 64GB SSD for boot, 30TB HDD array for storage) running Incus as a VM Hypervisor running 7 VM instances (6 + 1 TrueNAS).
Everything needed to run the cluster
| Logo | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cert Manager | X.509 certificate management for Kubernetes. | |
| Cilium | My CNI flavor. eBPF-based Networking, Observability, Security | |
| Tailscale | Used to expose public services (without using Public IPs) on my mesh VPN network. | |
| CloudNativePG | Database operator for running PostgreSQL clusters. | |
| Vault | Used as a local key/value secret store. | |
| External Secrets Operator | Used to sync my secrets from my Vault to my cluster. | |
| Flux CD | My GitOps solution of choice. Better than Argo. | |
| Grafana | The open observability platform. | |
| Prometheus | An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach. | |
| Democratic CSI Driver | Used to provision Persistent Volumes directly on my TrueNAS. | |
| Intel Device Plugins | Used to expose my Arc A310 GPU to the cluster. |
User Applications
| Logo | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Immich | Self-hosted photo and video management service. | |
| Jellyfin | Self-hosted steaming service for my backed up media. | |
| 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.