Khue's Homelab

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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).

If you encounter an issue, please create a bug report (avoid asking for support about issues specific to this project in other communication channels).

Overview

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.

Hardware

4 × NEC SFF PC-MK26ECZDR (Japanese version of the ThinkCentre M700):
- CPU: Intel Core i5-6600T @ 2.70GHz
- RAM: 16GB
- SSD: 128GB
TP-Link TL-SG108 switch:
- Ports: 8
- Speed: 1000Mbps

Features

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

Deploy with a single command (after updating the configuration files)

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

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)

Tech stack

Logo	Name	Description
	Ansible	Automate bare metal provisioning and configuration
	ArgoCD	GitOps tool built to deploy applications to Kubernetes
	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
	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
	Loki	Log aggregation system
	NGINX	Kubernetes Ingress Controller
	Nix	Convenient development shell
	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
	Tailscale	VPN without port forwarding
	Wireguard	Fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel
	Woodpecker CI	Simple yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility
	Zot Registry	Private container registry