K3s cluster

CRDs

Name	Description	Operator	Prometheus integration
Traefik	Kubernetes Ingress Controller	No	Configured
Prometheus	Metrics scraping	Yes	Configured
ArgoCD	Declarative GitOps CD	No	Configured
Longhorn	Distributed block storage	No	Not configured
MetalLB	Vare metal load-balancer	No	Not configured
CloudNativePG	PostgreSQL operator	Yes	Not configured
SOPS	Secret management	Yes	Not configured

Services

Name	Usage	Accessibility	Host	DB type	Additional data	Backup configuration	Loki integration	Prometheus integration	Secret management	Status	Standalone migration
Traefik	Reverse proxy and load balancer	Public & Private	Socrates & Pythagoras-b	-	-	-	Configured	Configured	-	Completed5	Backbone
ArgoCD	Declarative GitOPS CD	Private	Pythagoras-b	-	-	-	Configured	Configured	-	Completed	Backbone
Vaultwarden	Password manager	Public	Pythagoras-b	PostgreSQL	-	-	Configured	Not available	Configured	Completed	Completed
Gitea	Version control system	Public	Pythagoras-b	PostgreSQL	User created content	Configured9	Configured	Configured	Configured	Completed4	Completed
Grafana	Graph visualizer	Public	Pythagoras-b	-	-	-	Configured	Configured	Configured	Completed	Completed8
Prometheus	Metrics aggregator	Private	Pythagoras-b	-	-	Configured9	Configured	Configured	-	Completed	Completed8
Loki	Log aggregator	Private	Pythagoras-b	_	-	Configured9	Configured	Configured	-	Completed	Completed8
Adguard	DNS ad blocker and custom DNS server	Private	Socrates	-	-	-	Configured	Configured	Configured	Completed	Completed
Synapse	Matrix server - Message centralizer	Public	Pythagoras-b	PostgreSQL	User files	Configured9	Configured	Configured	Configured	Completed	Completed
Home assistant	Home automation and monitoring	Private	Pythagoras-a	PostgreSQL	Additional data	Configured9	Configured	Configured	Configured	Completed	Completed
Owncloud Infinity Scale	File hosting webUI	Public	Plato	?	Drive files	Not configured	Configured	Not configured	Configured	Pending configuration	Awaiting
therbron.com	Personal website	Public	Socrates	-	-	-	Not configured	Not configured	-	Awaiting configuration	Awaiting
Radarr	Movie collection manager	Private	Plato	PostgreSQL	-	-	Configured	Not configured	Not configured	Partial	Awaiting
Flaresolverr	Cloudflare proxy	Private	Plato	-	-	-	-	-	-	Completed	Awaiting
Sonarr	TV shows collection manager	Private	Plato	SQLite	-	Not configured	Configured	Not configured	Not configured	Partial	Awaiting
Prowlarr	Torrent indexer	Private	Plato	PostgreSQL	-	Not configured	Configured	Not available	Not configured	Partial	Awaiting
Jellyfin	Media streaming	Public	Archimedes	SQLite**	-	-	Configured	Not configured	Configured6	Completed	Awaiting
Jellyseerr	Media requesting WebUI	Public	Pythagoras-b	-	-	-	Not configured	Not available	Configured7	Awaiting configuration	Awaiting
Minecraft	Vanilla minecraft server for friends	Public	Archimedes	-	Game map	Not configured	Not configured	Not configured	-	Awaiting configuration	Awaiting
Satisfactory	Satisfactory server for friends	Public	Archimedes	-	Game map	Not configured	Not configured	Not configured	-	Not needed for v1	Awaiting
Space engineers	Space engineers server for friends	Public	Archimedes	-	Game map	Not configured	Not configured	Not configured	-	Not needed for v1	Awaiting
Raspsnir	Bachelor memorial website	Public	Pythagoras-b	PostgreSQL	-	Not configured	Not configured	Not configured	-	Not needed for v1	Awaiting
Vikunja	To-do and Kanban boards	Public	Pythagoras-b	-	-	-	Not configured	Not configured	-	Migrate to Gitea	Awaiting
Wiki	Documentation manager	Public	Pythagoras-b	-	-	-	Not configured	Not configured	-	Migrate to VuePress and Gitea	Awaiting
PaperlessNG	PDF viewer and organiser	Public	Pythagoras-b	PostgreSQL	-	-	Not configured	Not configured	-	Research migration into OCIS	Awaiting

* Configuration panel only available internally
** Current implementation only support SQLite, making manual backups a necessity
⁴ Configuration completed, awaiting data migration from Gitlab
⁵ Missing dashboard configuration
⁶ Done through volume backup, because not possible otherwise
⁷ Done, but needs a reimplementation using kustomize for secret separation from configmap
⁸ Done but included in a grouped project Monitoring
⁹ Handled by Longhorn

Backup management

Databases

All services needing a database to function come with a sidecar pod running a crontab to automate individual database backups. These backups are saved into a longhorn volume, to benefit from general snapshots later one. Each sidecar pod can only mount the backup folder it has been linked with, and cannot see other services' backups.

Additional data

All additional data needing to be backed up is mounted to a longhorn volume, to also benefit from scheduled backups.

Example :

longhorn
└───backups
    └───vaultwarden
    │   └───<backup_date>.sql
    │   │   ...
    └───gitlab
        └───<backup_date>.sql
        │   ...

TODO

• Add AntiAffinities to outsider nodes
• Migrate Homeassistant to PostgreSQL instead of MariaDB
• Move Prometheus connection management to ServiceMonitors instead of ConfigMap
• Schedule longhorn S3 backups
• Schedule CloudNativePG S3 backups
• Restrict metrics endpoint on public services
• Migrate Vaultwarden to PostgreSQL instead of MariaDB
• Deploy PostgresQL cluster using operator for database HA and easy maintenance - To be tested properly
• Change host/deployment specific variables to use environment variables (using Kustomize)
• Write CI/CD pipeline to create environment loaded files Done with Kustomize migration
• Write CI/CD pipeline to deploy cluster Done with ArgoCD
• Setup internal traefik with nodeport as reverse proxy for internal only services Done through double ingress class and LB
• Setup DB container sidecars for automated backups to Longhorn volume
• Setup secrets configuration through CI/CD variable injection (using Kustomize) Environment modified by SOPS implementation
• Figure out SOPS secret injection for absent namespaces
• Explore permission issues when issuing OVH API keys (not working for wildcard and beta.halia.dev subdomain)
• Setup default users for deployments
• Setup log and metric monitoring
• Define namespaces through yaml files
• Look into CockroachDB for redundant database Judged too complicated, moving to a 1 to 1 relationship between services and databases
• Configure IP range accessibility through Traefik (Internal vs external services) Impossible because of flannel ip-masq
• Move secrets to separate, private Git repository ? Done with SOPS
• Configure NFS connection for media library
• Research IPv6 configuration for outsider node Impossible in Denmark while using YouSee as an ISP for now (no IPv6 support)
• Write small script for auto installation of the cluster, to split API calls into 2 stages (solves MetalLB API not found error)
• Migrate ingresses to traefik kind instead of k8s kind

Notes

Cluster base setup

Setup the cluster's backbone

make dev
# Include SOPS master secret generation
kubectl create secret generic age-key --from-file=~/.sops/key.txt -n sops

NOTE: It might be required to update the metallb IP range as well as traefik LoadBalancerIPs

Convert helm chart to k3s manifest

helm template chart stable/chart --output-dir ./chart

Gitlab backup process

Because gitlab does not offer the possibility to backup a container's data from an external container, a cronjob has been implemented in the custom image used for deployment. NOTE: This does not apply anymore, as a migration is planned to Gitea

VPN configuration for Deluge

Instead of adding an extra networking layer to the whole cluster, it seems like a better idea to just integrate a wireguard connection inside of the deluge image, and self-build everything within Gitlab registry. This image could utilize kubernetes secrets, including a "torrent-vpn" secret produces by the initial wireguard configuration done via Ansible. This ansible script could create one (or more) additional client(s) depending on the inventory configuration, and keep the "torrent-vpn" configuration file within a k3s formated file, inside of the auto-applied directory on CP.
Cf : https://docs.k3s.io/advanced#auto-deploying-manifests After furhter reflection, it doesn't make sense to have Deluge being part of the cluster. It will be moved to the NAS, as it can run only when the NAS is running. This will also ease the whole VPN configuration.

Development domains

To access a service publicly when developing, the domain name should be *.beta.halia.dev To only expose a service internally, the domain name should be *.beta.entos

Ingresses

To split between external and internal services, two traefik ingresses are implemented through the ingressclass annotation. traefik-external will only allow external access to a given service, while traefik-internal restrict to an internal only access.

Secret management

All secrets are encrypted using SOPS and stored in a private secret repository. Secrets are decrypted on the fly when applied to the kluster using the SOPS Operator.

Inject the AGE key in the cluster to allow the operator to decrypt secrets :

kubectl create secret generic age-key --from-file=<path_to_file> -n sops