• MikroTik hAP ac³
  • DNS via containerized AdGuard Home (yes, MikroTik routers are based af, they can run containers)
  • WireGuard for secure external access
  • IKEv2 IPSec tunnels to my Azure subscription
• Unifi Switch Lite 8 PoE
• Unifi AP U6 Pro PoE

• Synology DS720+
  • Storage: 4x 1TB SATA SSD
  • Cache: 2x 256GB NVMe M.2 SD
  • RAM: 16GB
  • Network: 2x 1GbE ports using LAG (link aggregation)

Talos Linux bare-metal Kubernetes cluster running on mini-desktop PCs. Cheap and simple, unlike my ex.

• 3 control plane nodes
  • Dell 9020 Optiplex Micro
  • CPU: Intel i7-4785T 4-core 3.2GHz 8M Cache
  • RAM: Crucial 8GB DDR3 1600 CL11
  • Storage
    • 256GB M.2 SSD
    • Crucial MX500 2TB SATA SSD
• 1 worker node
  • Intel NUC10I5FNKN1
  • CPU: Intel i5-10210U 4-core 4.2GHz 6M Cache
  • RAM: Samsung 64GB DDR4 2666 CL19
  • Storage: 256GB M.2 NVMe SSD

• Automated detailed PRs for version upgrades of Flux HelmReleases, container image tags, & K8s .yaml resources
• Configured as a GitHub app (migrate to GitHub Action cause it looks cooler?)

• automatically manage Kubernetes resources as code
• whenever main is updated, this GitHub Action remotely reconciles my cluster by connecting to the K8s API via Tailscale

• encrypts K8s secrets on the client with age.key, using the age protocol, before commiting them to Git
• Flux decrypts the secrets within the cluster before applying, using a Secret containing age.key
• configured via .sops.yaml & gotk-sync.yaml

• Automated HTTPS cert lifecycle using cert-manager's ACME DNS01 Challenge Provider via Let's Encrypt with my domain emerconnelly.com

• Secured external access by exposing ingress, egress, & the K8s API to my tailnet
• Controlled via tailscale-operator

• Cloud-based secrets manager
• Controlled via vault-secrets-operator

• K8s web UI & resource explorer

• K8s web UI & resource explorer

• Full-stack observability (logs, traces, metrics), ~71:1 compression ratio, & a web UI for queries & dashboards

• Time-series database for collecting & alterting on application & infrastructure metrics
• Deployed via kube-prometheus-stack

• Visualize metrics, logs, & traces from multiple sources
• Deployed via kube-prometheus-stack

• K8s eBPF-based CNI & kube-proxy replacement
• K8s Ingress & Gateway API controller
• K8s LoadBalancer backend via L2 Advertisments using gratuitous ARP

• Visual map & event log of the Cilium CNI

• K8s Ingress & Gateway API controller
• all *.homelab.emerconnelly.com links are directed, via AdGuard Home DNS config, to the LoadBalancer service for this IngressClass
  • this includes both intra- & inter-cluster resources

• Deploy highly-available & fully API-compliant S3 storage tenants
• Controlled via minio-operator

• deployed with this GitHub Action using Rust mdBook