My Home Lab

This repository includes Infrastructure as A Code configuration to deploy and configure my personal homelab. It leverages Ansible, Terraform, go-tasks ... and several tools that are presentend in the following sections.

Hardware

Currently my homelab is limited to a single laptop, that I no longer use: - Dell XPS 9570 - Intel i7 8750h - 20 GB RAM - 512GB NVME - External Hard Drive 4TB

General Architecture

To setup the kubernetes cluster, we will leverage Proxmox as the main hypervisor. On top of it, we provision 3 main virtual machines (k8s cluster) and a virtual machine for TrueNas.

Getting started

First Proxmox needs to be installed on the main machine, It is preferable to install it using the Proxmox VE ISO, Follow this GUIDE.

Create a non-root user

Once Installed, Log in to your proxmox instance url https://$ip_address:8086, and open the shell section.

adduser mgrsys
apt update
apt install -y sudo
usermod -aG sudo mgrsys
echo "mgrsys ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" | tee /etc/sudoers.d/mgrsys
newgrp sudo
su - mgrsys
sudo apt update

[Post install] Setup SSH key

Add SSH keys (or use ssh-copy-id on the client that is connecting)

📍 First make sure your ssh keys are up-to-date and added to your github account as instructed

mkdir -m 700 ~/.ssh
sudo apt install -y curl
curl https://github.com/${github_username}.keys > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Test ssh connection with ssh mgrsys@$ip_address

[Post install] Main Setup

On your local machine install go-task