Building a Production-Grade k3s Homelab: HA, Cilium, and MetalLB

Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

For a long time, I’ve been trying to achieve a better configuration in my home lab. Since I have been working with Kubernetes (k8s) for an extended period of time, I have always desired an overkill configuration with multiple nodes for high availability. However, looking at the costs related to running such a setup, I got depressed. I then explored alternatives and came to the conclusion… Raspberry Pis! I bought 6 Raspberry Pis and said which one should I use k0s, k3s or some other lightweight k8s? Then I said let’s go for k3s, it seems easier :D So the Raspberry Pis arrived but… I moved house then my Raspberries went missing in one of the boxes… Three months later, I stumbled upon them again amidst my collection of belongings – I tend to accumulate a lot of stuff – and by this point, I had changed jobs, moved again, and dealt with more complications… So after 2 years, here we are again… looking again at this project… so I will trust my old me saying the k3s is the best thing that I could use… So let’s look at the hardware that I have…

Homelab on Jorge's notebook

Building a Production-Grade k3s Homelab: HA, Cilium, and MetalLB