cluster-template VS motioneye

it's become much easier in the last few years. Talos + Flux + Renovate can be built in a day [0], and simplifies storage/backups/patching even for single-node clusters. There's also a great community, with services like kubesearch [1] providing templates for tons of apps

[0] https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

[1] https://kubesearch.dev

I've been self-hosting a lot of things on a home kubernetes cluster lately, though via gitops using flux (apparently this genre is now home-ops?). I was kind of expecting this article to be along those lines, using the fairly popular gitops starting template cluster-template: https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

I set one of these up on a few cheap odroid-h4's, and have quite enjoyed having a fairly automated (though quite complex of course) setup, that has centralized logging, metrics, dashboards, backup, etc. by copying/adapting other people's setups.

Instead of weechat, I went with a nice web based irc client (the lounge) to replace my irccloud subscription. kubesearch makes it easy to find other people's configs to learn from (https://kubesearch.dev/hr/ghcr.io-bjw-s-helm-app-template-th...).

For populating a homelab Kubernetes cluster, onedr0p has a very nice Flux template: https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

k8s is a lot easier for homelabs than it used to be, and imo it's quicker than nix for building a declarative homelab. templates like this one can deploy a cluster in a few hours: https://github.com/onedr0p/cluster-template

here's my home assistant deployment as a single file: https://github.com/pl4nty/homelab/blob/main/kubernetes/clust...

I deliberately nuked my onprem cluster a few weeks ago, and was fully restored within 2 hours (including host OS reinstalls). and most of that was waiting for backup restores over my slow internet connection

example repo: https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template

Magical setups like this often get a lot of bad rap, but if you already understand Ansible and know Linux etc, you might find this repo a good start to building out your own cluster using gitops: https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template

more of an end-to-end solution than a build-it-yourself, but this was a huge help in my understanding of k8s and the other tech like gitops - https://github.com/onedr0p/flux-cluster-template

motioneyeos is fantastic, but last i checked it wasn't being maintained any more… since you're already using ubuntu, the project is available without the full os distro: motionEye.

not to disrupt your project, but consider https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye looks like this https://snapcraft.io/motioneye

If your laptop has a webcam you can install motioneye to turn it into a surveillance camera https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye.

Motion OS has unfortunately stopped but MotionEye itself is still on-going (last update was a month ago to two yaml files).

2 handle CCTV via MotionEye (https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye) using some cheapy Wansview cameras (inside and out...originally to keep an eye on a new dog while we were working upstairs). 1 handles the UI of MotionEye, and is also used for various ad-hoc processes (e.g. SpotDL, Samba etc) where having an always-on machine is handy.

Have a look at MotionEye for the Pi - install notes here