Open Source - vxCoronado

Kubernetes Home Cloud with Raspberry Pi

How I setup my local Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi using k3s to run different network services for my homelab

When you are running a home lab like mine, that is a dual use equipment – I use a Dell Precision 7750 dual booting ESXi 7.0U1 and Ubuntu 18.04- it gets cumbersome to host some basic services as VMs inside your enviroment like DNS and NTP.

Dell Precision 7750. Dual Boot Ubuntu 18.04 and ESXi 7.0U1

So looking for a cheap way to run this kind of services outside of my virtual enviroment I started to use a old Raspberry Pi 2, running basic dnsmasq and ntpd to get this kind of services.

Open Service Mesh

A Service mesh is a tool for managing and securing service to service communication in Kubernetes.

Right now it’s a technology very fragmented, with multiple implementations in the market from Google’s Istio that is the more popular, HashiCorp Consul, Linkerd and more.