mancobian/homelab

Automate the creation of a multi-node Kubernetes cluster in a Proxmox Virtual Environment.

Overview

Create a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on a single server in a Proxmox Virtual Environment.

Server Specs

• CPU: 32 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz (2 Sockets)
• RAM: 128 GB
• Disk
  • local-zfs
    • Content: Disk Image, Container
    • Type: ZFS, Mirror
    • Size: 500 GB (x2)
  • data
    • Content: Disk Image, Container
    • Type: ZFS, Mirror
    • Size: 2 TB (x2)

K8s Cluster Specs

• Master (x1)
  • CPU: 4 cores
  • RAM: 32 GB
• Worker (x3)
  • CPU: 2 cores
  • RAM: 8 GB
• Data (x1)
  • CPU: 4 cores
  • RAM: 16 GB

Commands

• make install - Install homelab
• make uninstall - Remove homelab
• homelab setup - Setup homelab resources
• homelab teardown - Teardown homelab resources
• homelab kubectl - Execute a kubectl command on the K8s cluster master node

References

• The Engineer's Workshop, "LVM, Thin Provisioning, and Monitoring Storage Use: A Case Study"
• YouTube, "Creating a template in Proxmox Virtual Environment with cloud-init support" - cloud-init networking workaround
• LinkedIn, "Lost SSH Key? Cloud-init is the answer"
• cloudinit.co, "How to Set Up SSH Keys on Ubuntu 18.04"
• learnk8s.com, "Architecting Kubernetes clusters — choosing a worker node size"
• yetiops.net, "Using Terraform and Cloud-Init to deploy and automatically monitor Proxmox instances"
• freedesktop.org, "XDG Base Directory Specification"