RPi Home Server

Kubernetes cluster (K3s) hosted on a Raspberry Pi to manage my home media and networking configuration.

Ansible playbooks to automate the initial pi setup, cluster deployment and cluster destruction.

Getting Started

Flash Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) and run ./setup.sh to lockdown the pi and assign a static IP address.

Run ./create.sh to install K3s and applications.

Run ./destroy.sh to uninstall the cluster.

Applications

• Pi-hole - advertising-aware DNS/web server.
• RSS Tracker - email notifications for rss feed updates.
• Prometheus Stack - enable alerts and cluster visualisation on grafana.
• NextCloud - self-hosted cloud storage.

Extras

• Pi-hole backups - automated weekly backup and reload on deployment of pi-hole's database using Google Drive.

Todo

• Home Assistant - centralise home IoT devices from multiple providers.
• OctoPrint - remote dashboard for 3D printers.
• Bitwarden - open source password manager.

Other Setup Steps

Tokens

• Google Drive Service Account Token - used for pihole backup jobs
• Cloudflare DNS API Token - used for cert-manager challenge

DNS Setup

• A Record - dashboard - nginx-ingress-external-ip - DNS only (no cloudflare proxy)
• A Record - pihole - nginx-ingress-external-ip - DNS only (no cloudflare proxy)
• A Record - prometheus - nginx-ingress-external-ip - DNS only (no cloudflare proxy)
• A Record - alertmanager - nginx-ingress-external-ip - DNS only (no cloudflare proxy)
• A Record - grafana - nginx-ingress-external-ip - DNS only (no cloudflare proxy)
• A Record - cloud - nginx-ingress-external-ip - DNS only (no cloudflare proxy)

Ingress

• First metallb ip pool address - Nginx ingress
• Second metallb ip pool address - Pihole DNS ingress