Dan Manners' Homelab

All of the readme’s are in a state of flux at this moment. I’m working on refactoring much of the repository, but I’m happy to answer any questions in the k8s@Home Discord server or on Discord! Feel free to reach me at danmanners with any questions or at [email protected]!

This homelab repository is aimed at applying widely-accepted tools and established practices within the DevOps/SRE world. Its primary objectives are to efficiently carry out the intended service functions while also serving as a valuable reference for individuals looking to enhance their own learning. This repository is not intended to be a "one-size-fits-all" solution, but rather a starting point for others to build upon and learn from.

🔍 Features

• ✓ Make GitOps easy to learn

• ✓ Modularity; make it easy to add/remove components

• ✓ External DNS; declarative DNS management for public-facing services

• ✓ Cert-Manager; Automagic cert management

• ✓ Harbor; In-Cluster Container Registry

• ❏ Monitoring and alerting 🚧

• ❏ Hybrid Multi-Cloud 🚧

💡 Current Tech Stack

Name	Description
Argo CD	GitOps for Kubernetes
Argo Events	Event based dependency management for Kubernetes
Argo Workflows	Kubernetes-native workflow engine
AWS	Cloud Provider
Blocky	Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker
Buildah	Container Building
Cert-Manager	Certificate Manager
Cilium	CNI utilizing eBPF for Observability and Security
CloudNativePG	Kubernetes operator covering lifecycle of HA PostgreSQL Clusters
CSI-Driver-NFS	Kubernetes NFS Driver for persistent storage
Rook Ceph	Cloud-Native File, Block, and Object Storage for Kubernetes
Dex IDP	Federated OIDC
External-DNS	Configure and manage External DNS servers
GitHub	Popular Code Management through Git
Grafana	Metrics Visualization
Harbor	Open Source Container Registry
Helm	Kubernetes Package Management
Jenkins	Open-Source Automation Server
Kubernetes	Container Orchestration
Let’s Encrypt	Free TLS certificates
Maddy	Composable all-in-one mail server
MetalLB	Kubernetes bare-metal Load Balancer
SOPS	Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
Podman	Container and Pod management
Prometheus	Metrics and Data Collection
Python	Python Programming Language
Raspberry Pi	Baremetal ARM SoC Hardware!
SonarQube	Static code analysis
Sonatype Nexus-OSS	Manage binaries and build artifacts
Tekton	Cloud-Native CI/CD
Ubuntu	Operating System
Talos Linux	The Kubernetes Operating System
Talhelper	A tool to help creating Talos Kubernetes cluster
Uptime Kuma	Fancy self-hosted system monitoring
WikiJS	Open-Source Wiki/Documentation Service

Deployment Order of Operations

To-Do Items

• Ensure that ALL services are tagged for the appropriate hardware (arm64 or amd64) to ensure runtime success

  • Alternatively, ensure that all containers are built for multi-architecture.

• Ensure that ALL application and service subdirectories have READMEs explaining what they’re doing and what someone else may need to modify for their own environment

Gratitude and Thanks

This README redesign was inspired by several other homelab repos, individuals, and communities.

Individuals

• zimmertr/TKS

• onedr0p/home-ops

• khuedoan/homelab

Communities

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The DevOps Lounge

K8s-at-Home

Without the inspiration and help of these individuals and communities, I don’t think my own project would be nearly as far. Make sure to check out their projects as well!