Solon's Home Server Config

A k8's cluster managed with Talos, Flux and Renovate

📂 Repository structure

The Git repository contains the following directories:

📁
├──📁 kubernetes            # Main Kubernetes manifests directory
│   ├──📁 ai                # AI/ML applications
│   │   ├──📁 litellm
│   │   ├──📁 openwebui
│   │   └──📁 searxng
│   ├──📁 games             # Game servers
│   │   └──📁 abiotic-factor
│   ├──📁 infra             # Core infrastructure components
│   │   ├──📁 flux
│   │   ├──📁 node-feature-discovery
│   │   ├──📁 nvidia-device-plugin
│   │   ├──📁 reflector
│   │   ├──📁 reloader
│   │   └──📁 tuppr
│   ├──📁 manga             # Manga/comic management
│   │   ├──📁 komf
│   │   ├──📁 komga
│   │   └──📁 suwayomi
│   ├──📁 media             # Media automation (*arr stack)
│   │   ├──📁 cleanuparr
│   │   ├──📁 dispatcharr
│   │   ├──📁 flaresolver
│   │   ├──📁 huntarr
│   │   ├──📁 jellyfin
│   │   ├──📁 jellyseer
│   │   ├──📁 prowlarr
│   │   ├──📁 qbittorrent
│   │   ├──📁 radarr
│   │   ├──📁 recyclarr
│   │   └──📁 sonarr
│   ├──📁 misc              # Miscellaneous applications
│   │   ├──📁 immich
│   │   ├──📁 speedtest-tracker
│   │   └──📁 syncthing
│   ├──📁 networking        # Network services and ingress
│   │   ├──📁 cert-manager
│   │   ├──📁 cilium
│   │   ├──📁 envoy-gateway
│   │   ├──📁 external-dns
│   │   └──📁 tailscale
│   ├──📁 observability     # Monitoring and dashboards
│   │   ├──📁 dashboard
│   │   ├──📁 kube-prometheus-stack
│   │   ├──📁 kube-state-metrics
│   │   ├──📁 metrics-server
│   │   └──📁 node-exporter
│   ├──📁 projects          # Personal projects
│   │   └──📁 colwiki
│   ├──📁 security          # Authentication and secrets
│   │   ├──📁 authentik
│   │   └──📁 secrets
│   └──📁 storage           # Storage solutions
│       ├──📁 databases
│       ├──📁 garage
│       └──📁 longhorn
├──📁 talos                 # Talos Linux configuration
│   ├── talconfig.yaml      # Talos cluster configuration
│   ├── talsecret.sops.yaml # Encrypted Talos secrets
│   └──📁 clusterconfig     # Generated node configurations
└──📁 archive               # Archived/unused configurations

🖥️ Software

The following apps are installed on the clusters.

Applications

Software	Purpose
Homepage	Customizable homepage dashboard for service management.
Immich	Self-hosted photo and video backup solution.
LiteLLM	Proxy server for LLM API calls with unified interface.
Open WebUI	User-friendly web interface for AI models.
SearXNG	Privacy-respecting metasearch engine.
Komga	Media server for comics and manga.
Komf	Metadata fetcher for Komga.
Suwayomi	Free and open source manga reader server.
Ntfy	Simple pub-sub notification service.
Speedtest Tracker	Internet speed tracking and monitoring tool.
Syncthing	Continuous file synchronization program.
Shadow Empire PBEM Bot	Discord bot for Shadow Empire play-by-email games.
Colwiki	Personal wiki project.

Media Automation

Software	Purpose
Jellyfin	Media server for movies, TV shows, and music.
Jellyseerr	Media discovery and request management for Jellyfin.
Sonarr	Automated TV show download and management.
Radarr	Automated movie download and management.
Prowlarr	Indexer manager/proxy for media automation.
Qbittorrent	BitTorrent client with web interface.
Recyclarr	Quality profiles and custom formats sync for *arr apps.
Huntarr	Missing media searcher for Radarr and Sonarr.
Cleanuparr	Automated media cleanup tool for *arr apps.
Dispatcharr	Discord notifications for *arr apps.
Flaresolverr	Proxy server to bypass Cloudflare protection.

Infrastructure

Software	Purpose
Flux CD	GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes.
Reflector	Mirrors ConfigMaps and Secrets across namespaces.
Reloader	Triggers pod restarts on ConfigMap/Secret changes.

Networking

Software	Purpose
Cilium	eBPF-based networking, security, and observability.
Cert-Manager	Automated certificate management for Kubernetes.
External DNS	Synchronizes Kubernetes services with DNS providers.
Tailscale	Zero-config VPN built on WireGuard.
Envoy Gateway	Kubernetes-native API gateway powered by Envoy.

Security

Software	Purpose
Authentik	Identity provider for SSO and authentication.
External Secrets Operator	Integrates external secret stores with Kubernetes.

Storage

Software	Purpose
Longhorn	Distributed block storage for Kubernetes.
Crunchy Postgres Operator	PostgreSQL operator for Kubernetes.
Dragonfly	Modern in-memory datastore (Redis/Memcached alternative).
Garage	Distributed object storage service (S3-compatible).

Observability

Software	Purpose
Kube Prometheus Stack	Complete monitoring stack with Prometheus and Grafana.
Metrics Server	Cluster-wide aggregator of resource usage data.
Node Exporter	Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics.
Kube State Metrics	Exposes cluster-level Kubernetes object metrics.

Node Management

Software	Purpose
Tuppr	Talos Linux system upgrade controller.
NVIDIA Device Plugin	Exposes NVIDIA GPUs to Kubernetes.
Node Feature Discovery	Detects hardware features available on each node.

📦 Hardware

Device	Count	OS Disk Size	Data Disk Size	Ram	Operating System	Purpose
Turing RK1	4	2TB NVMe	-	16GB	Talos	Cluster Nodes
Turing Pi 2	1	-	-	-	-	Baseboard and KVM
CWWK AMD-7940HS	1	1TB NVMe	8TB HDD (2x)	32GB	Proxmox	NAS/Cluster Nodes