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This project utilizes Infrastructure as Code and GitOps to automate provisioning, operating, and updating self-hosted services in my homelab. It can be used as a highly customizable framework to build your own homelab.
What is a homelab?
Homelab is a laboratory at home where you can self-host, experiment with new technologies, practice for certifications, and so on. For more information, please see the r/homelab introduction and the Home Operations Discord community (formerly known as k8s-at-home).
Project status: ALPHA
This project is still in the experimental stage, and I don't use anything critical on it. Expect breaking changes that may require a complete redeployment. A proper upgrade path is planned for the stable release. More information can be found in the roadmap below.
- 4 × NEC SFF
PC-MK26ECZDR
(Japanese version of the ThinkCentre M700):- CPU:
Intel Core i5-6600T @ 2.70GHz
- RAM:
16GB
- SSD:
128GB
- CPU:
- TP-Link
TL-SG108
switch:- Ports:
8
- Speed:
1000Mbps
- Ports:
- Common applications: Gitea, Jellyfin, Paperless...
- Automated bare metal provisioning with PXE boot
- Automated Kubernetes installation and management
- Installing and managing applications using GitOps
- Automatic rolling upgrade for OS and Kubernetes
- Automatically update apps (with approval)
- Modular architecture, easy to add or remove features/components
- Automated certificate management
- Automatically update DNS records for exposed services
- VPN without port forwarding
- Expose services to the internet securely with Cloudflare Tunnel
- CI/CD platform
- Private container registry
- Distributed storage
- Support multiple environments (dev, prod)
- Monitoring and alerting
- Automated offsite backups 🚧
- Single sign-on
- Infrastructure testing
Some demo videos and screenshots are shown here. They can't capture all the project's features, but they are sufficient to get a concept of it.
Demo |
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Deploy with a single command (after updating the configuration files) |
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PXE boot |
Observe network traffic with Hubble, built on top of Cilium and eBPF |
Homepage powered by... Homepage |
Monitoring dashboard powered by Grafana |
Git server powered by Gitea |
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Matrix chat server |
Continuous integration with Woodpecker CI |
Continuous deployment with ArgoCD |
ntfy displaying received alerts |
Self-hosted AI powered by Ollama (experimental, not very fast because I don't have a GPU) |
Logo | Name | Description |
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Ansible | Automate bare metal provisioning and configuration | |
ArgoCD | GitOps tool built to deploy applications to Kubernetes | |
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cert-manager | Cloud native certificate management |
Cilium | eBPF-based Networking, Observability and Security (CNI, LB, Network Policy, etc.) | |
Cloudflare | DNS and Tunnel | |
Docker | Ephemeral PXE server and convenient tools container | |
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ExternalDNS | Synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with DNS providers |
Fedora Server | Base OS for Kubernetes nodes | |
Gitea | Self-hosted Git service | |
Grafana | Observability platform | |
Helm | The package manager for Kubernetes | |
K3s | Lightweight distribution of Kubernetes | |
Kanidm | Modern and simple identity management platform | |
Kubernetes | Container-orchestration system, the backbone of this project | |
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Loki | Log aggregation system |
NGINX | Kubernetes Ingress Controller | |
ntfy | Notification service to send notifications to your phone or desktop | |
Prometheus | Systems monitoring and alerting toolkit | |
Renovate | Automatically update dependencies | |
Rook Ceph | Cloud-Native Storage for Kubernetes | |
Woodpecker CI | Simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility | |
ZeroTier | VPN without port forwarding | |
Zot Registry | Private container registry |
- Try it out locally without any hardware (just 4 commands!)
- Deploy on real hardware for production workload
See roadmap and open issues for a list of proposed features and known issues.
Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
Please see contributing guide for more information.
Copyright © 2020 - 2024 Khue Doan
Distributed under the GPLv3 License.
See license page or LICENSE.md
file for more information.
References:
- Ephemeral PXE server inspired by Minimal First Machine in the DC
- ArgoCD usage and monitoring configuration in locmai/humble
- README template
- Run the same Cloudflare Tunnel across many
cloudflared
processes - MAC address environment variable in GRUB config
- Official k3s systemd service file
- Official Cloudflare Tunnel examples
- Initialize GitOps repository on Gitea and integrate with Tekton by RedHat
- SSO configuration from xUnholy/k8s-gitops
- Pre-commit config from k8s-at-home/flux-cluster-template
- Diátaxis technical documentation framework
- Official Terratest examples
- Self-host an automated Jellyfin media streaming stack
- App Template Helm chart by bjw-s
- Various application configurations in onedr0p/home-ops
Here is a list of the contributors who have helped to improve this project. Big shout-out to them!
@locmai
@MatthewJohn
@karpfediem
@linhng98
@BlueHatbRit
@dotdiego
@Crimrose
@eventi
@Bourne-ID
@akwan
@trangmaiq
@tangowithfoxtrot
@raedkit
@ClashTheBunny
@retX0
If you feel you're missing from this list, please feel free to add yourself in a PR.