k8s

I’ve had a homelab in some form for a couple years, it has evolved over time. This post will go over what the current state of my Homelab is as of the end of 2024. Hardware My Homelab consists of 4 “servers”. I call them servers but they are really small form factor business computers. More specifically I have: 2 Lenovo P330 Tiny’s. 1 has 64GB of DDR4 memory, 1 1TB 2. [Read More]

Decisions In 2024 I decided to finally setup a proper Kubernetes environment at home. I deployed k3s on a few VMs in my Proxmox cluster. After searching around for how to handle storage the most common respones I got were: Just use NFS with the NFS CSI. Use Ceph/Rook. Use Longhorn by Rancher/SUSE. I didn’t want to use NFS as that would mean a single point of failure for the stateful applications. [Read More]

k3s I’ve been working with Kubernetes a lot at work and it’s very interesting. Recently I heard of k3s by the people over at Rancher. It’s introduced as a “lightweight kubernetes”, the binary is less than 40MB, and only 512MB of ram to run. I’ve been wanting to test them out but my last Raspberry Pi 3 just died a few weeks ago. That’s where GCP comes in. GCP always free tier Google Cloud platform offers an always free tier and is one of the few cloud providers that offers compute (or VM) for free. [Read More]