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Tooling

My servers mostly run inside Proxmox with Debian as the OS. You can check my ansible code to see how I deploy the VMs.

All my services are containerized, using Docker Compose or orchestrated with Kubernetes.

Some highlighted components of the stack:

1. K3s as the K8s distribution I use
2. Flux as my GitOps solution for Kubernetes
3. Bitwarden Secrets Manager for storing my secrets and consuming them programmatically
4. Ansible to deploy new VMs inside Proxmox
5. Renovate to keep my services always up to date

hilmoo/homelab-iot

I decided not to self-host all my infra because some of the services need near-perfect reliability.

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To build a similar homelab, I highly recommend starting with the official documentation for each component in the stack. Use my infra as reference only.

The infrastructure I used, especially the configuration inside the kubernetes folder, is highly tuned for my low-resource environment. My Kubernetes cluster is also not HA (High Availability), it contains only a single Control Plane and two Agents.

1. Disabled Services: I disable several embedded K3s services to save resources. Check the list here.
2. Custom DNS: I use a custom DNS configuration to ensure resolution availability even if half of my nodes die. Check the manifest here.
3. Storage: I primarily use hostPath volumes to avoid the overhead of distributed storage solutions.
4. Scheduling: I extensively use nodeSelector in manifests to manually control which nodes handle high-resource workloads.