Homelab

This repo contains the configuration files and scripts for managing my Kubernetes homelab infrastructure.

All apps are deployed/configured via GitOps using ArgoCD.

💻 Hardware

The homelab consists of Dell OptiPlex servers, each with the following specifications:

🟢 3x Nodes 🟢

• Model: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop PC Mini
• CPU: Intel i5-6500T
• RAM: 16GB DDR4
• Storage: 256GB SSDs
• OS: Ubuntu 24

🚀 Installed Apps & Tools

Apps

End User Applications

Logo	Name	Description
	Audiobookshelf	Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

System

Applications/services core to the cluster

Logo	Name	Description
	ArgoCD	Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes.
	Istio	For ingress and service mesh
	Authentik	Used for SSO and other auth workflows.
	cert-manager	X.509 certificate management for Kubernetes.
	Cloudflare Zero Trust	Used for private tunnels to expose public services (without requiring a public IP).
	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.
	Renovate	Automated dependency updates.
	Sealed Secrets	A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets.

Tools

Tools used for managing the cluster

Logo	Name	Description
	Ansible	An automation platform for bootstrapping the physical nodes.

📷 Demo/Images

Home Page

⚙️ Bootstrapping Steps

1. Bootstrap servers
2. Setup Kubernetes cluster
3. Setup local DNS
4. Deploy applications

✔️ TODO

• setup kube-prometheus-stack monitoring stack
• setup argocd
• expose kiali
• setup local identity provider with authentik
  • Setup federated identity for apps
• Setup cloudflare tunnel for public access
• Setup Falco for runtime security