HomeLab
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HomeLab
- Some Kubernetes stuff testing
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Do I need Kubernetes?
And if you are interested how I've done it: https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/HomeLab
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How do you automate the setup of file-less config applications (eg. Uptime Kuma)?
Example of a service that is being backed up (see backup.velero.io/backup-volume): https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/HomeLab/blob/master/Helm/apps/uptimekuma/templates/deployment.yaml
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I'm a noob at homelab stuff, have three spare rack mount PC's to build something out of. What services are you hosting?
But for me https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/HomeLab/tree/master/cluster/homelab/apps
- K3S With ContainerD Grafana Dashboard And Dashy HomePage
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Has anyone used BotKube?
So I've been trying to get botkube to work, but it seems to me like the helm chart documentation is outdated? I've been looking at the values and trying to make things work and it didn't really work for me.. https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/HomeLab/blob/master/cluster/homelab/apps/botkube/helmrelease.yaml is what I tried
- What do you have running on your Homeserver?
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Looking for some thoughts on backup solutions for Kubernetes
And here is some documentation and specifics I've ran into. https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/HomeLab/blob/master/docs/Backups.md
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How to orchestrate all services on server?
Also for configuration storage and git, I recommend taking a gitops approach to things. You can checkup FluxCD2. Here is my repo for reference https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/HomeLab
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Looking for tips / recommendations for new selfhoster
A few suggestions and thinks I wish I knew when I started ( personal opinions incoming ): 1. Get a single well sized server ( I'd go for 8 cpus .. And like more than 16 gigs of ram and 250+ ssd, ideally m.2 nvme ). Don't bother with raspberry pis.. Check my profile for my previous post to see a comparison of raspberry pi cluster and a x86 cluster... 2. Install proxmox to do virtualization 3. The majority of People in this sub hate kubernetes and the minority is scared to speak, but install k3s on the vms you spin up, this way you can scale resources and not worry about some elaborate setup of which containers go to which node and how to setup tls offloading, load balancing and much much much more as kubernetes will handle it for you. ( bonus since you are a devops engineer so you are probably used to kube clusters ) 4. Use Velero to do restic backups to s3 for services that are critical like dbs and password managers etc. 5. Do everything with ansible or GitOps! My personal homelab is here: https://github.com/Michaelpalacce/HomeLab utilizing ansible, flux for GitOps and renovate to keep my services up to date ( note to say my cluster spin up isn't as nice as I want it to be since when provisioning I have a Dependency on some secrets which I do manually.. But this is only first cluster setup ) 6. Setup a VPN and administrative services on the raspberry pi you have lying around. Personally my VPN is on the router but if yours doesn't support it, do that. 7. After you are done setting everything up and you have a backup, format the drives and reinstall the vms and re set everything up. Document the process, write automation scripts until satisfied... I genuinely recommend you do this like 3 times...... 8. Vpn I guess a lot of people like wireguard or adguard home... Doesn't really matter as long as it's not open vpn and it supports multiple threads. 9. Setup nodered for some automation around your new home, you'll love it. 10. Firefly is amazing! 11. Make sure that your CSI ( Container storage interface ) supports replication. Keep 3 replicas of critical volumes! 11. If you need any help, don't forget to ask :) personally shoot me a dm and I'll do my best to help, but I'm sure most of us here would
blocky
- Show HN: Blocky – Fast and lightweight DNS proxy as ad-blocker for local network
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Would it make sense to run pihole in a kubernetes cluster with multiple instances?
I run multiple blocky instances in a kubernetes cluster. I don't know if it makes sense ... but I'm running kubernetes cluster at home, so making sense is relative ;p
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I have progressively been upgrading my small apartment lab over the last week
The PI is running a DNS proxy (https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky) and not much else at the moment.
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Give me your advice re. DNS, naming, nginx reverse proxy etc
I switched from pihole to https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky for internal DNS, and I found it to be a lot easier to use compared to pihole. Setting up DNS entries was as easy as typing a single line in their config.yml, and restarting the service.
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Anti-Affinity across namespaces and Deployments. Does it work?
You could try using blocky instead of pihole. It's stateless and much more friendly to run.
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In depth comparison: PiHole vs AdGuardHome vs Blocky ...
Link to the Projects' GitHub pages: 1. https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky [Blocky] 2. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome [AdguardHome] 3. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole [Pi-hole]
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Issue deploying Pihole on kubernetes
Any specific feature you need from pihole that Blocky doesn't have? Blocky is a much nicer tool for AdBlocking especially if deployed in k8s because it's stateless and configured via a single config file. Plus it's written in Go!
- Searching for selfhosted DNS Server
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What are some of your favorite self-hosted programs written in golang or rust?
Still, to answer the question: https://github.com/0xERR0R/blocky
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Best option for homelab ad blocking...POLL
There is also blocky. I like it because it is light, declarative, stateless, can use redis as cache and has prometheus integration. This plays really nicely with my setup.
What are some alternatives?
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charts - ⚠️ Deprecated : Helm charts for applications you run at home
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sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
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