Infra

The homelab: a six-node k3s cluster, the network around it, and the practices that keep it up.

pi-tower

/projects/pi-tower
infra active

Six Raspberry Pi 4s running k3s in a printed rack. The half of the homelab I'm allowed to break.

k3s · Cilium · Flux · Raspberry Pi 4
  • k3s
  • cilium
  • flux
  • homelab
Backlog 4 Not started · effort
bootstrap Bare metal to a running cluster in one command. Netboot the Pis, image them, join k3s, hand off to Flux. planned L
lookout The observability stack (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Grafana, Alertmanager), and honest write-ups of what it has and hasn't caught. planned M
holdfast Backups I have actually restored from. Restic to local and offsite, with scheduled restore drills that fail loudly. planned M
meshwork Re-planning a home network that grew a device at a time. VLANs whose boundaries stopped meaning anything, and a primary subnet running out of addresses. planned M