Self-hosting
created: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:19:31 GMT, modified: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:07:38 GMT
Lightweight and fully functional Kubernetes environment that works anywhere.
Goals
- deploy applications to the cluster, including lightweight development environment
- expose applications to the world with TLS and domain names
Design
- compute/storage on premises across multiple sites
- cheap and disposable VPS to expose cluster services online
Hardware
- Laptop Lenovo T460, i5-6200U, 16GB RAM, 200GB SSD, as primary master/worker node
- Synology DS920+
Configuration steps
- set up domain and name servers
- set up Kubernetes cluster with K3s and Tailscale VPN
- procure VPS or dedicated server
- install and configure k3s agent
- configure node monitoring
- expose DS920+ NFS as storage class for persist storage
- configure VPS node taints
- install ingress-nginx, cert-manager and external-dns charts
- configure external-dns to automatically update zone
- configure ingress-nginx to use taints and tolerations
- configure cert-manager to use public letsencrypt service
- configure external monitors to watch domain names and nodes