HP ProDesk 600 G4
💗 The heart of the cluster
- Intel Core i5-8500T
- 8 GB RAM
- A puny 256 GB SSD
Tiny, quiet and runs the Kubernetes control plane.
The Lab
Nothing I own is brand new. I love reviving old tech and giving retired machines a second life. My cluster is called kintsugi-lab, after the art of repairing broken pottery with gold. 💛
Four systems, all running Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS and working together as one Kubernetes cluster.
Intel NUC 10
⚡ The speedy little one
- Intel Core i7-10710U
- 32 GB RAM
- 512 GB SSD
Supermicro X10
💪 The big one
- 2× Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4
- 80 GB RAM (I know, odd number)
- 1 TB SSD
- NVIDIA Titan Xp
Supermicro X11
🗄️ The vault
- Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5
- 32 GB RAM
- 512 GB SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
- 30 TB of hard drives for cluster storage
Everything is deployed with GitOps: I push to Git and the cluster updates itself.
Apps
- Plex: movies and TV
- Seerr: media requests
- Forgejo: self-hosted Git
- AdGuard Home: DNS and ad blocking
- Homepage: my lab dashboard
- This website 🎀
Monitoring
- Prometheus: collects metrics
- Grafana: pretty dashboards
- Alertmanager: tells me when things break
Platform
- Kubernetes on Ubuntu Server 24.04
- Flux CD: GitOps deployments
- Traefik: ingress and routing
- MetalLB: LAN load balancer IPs
- Cloudflare Tunnel: public access, no open ports
Storage
- local-path: fast SSD storage for app configs
- NFS: shared storage from the vault's 30 TB
Straight from the cluster, refreshed every 30 seconds. ✨
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