https://afavaccio.cloud/blog/Recent content in Blog on afavaccio.cloudHugoenThu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://afavaccio.cloud/blog/homelab-kubernetes-on-a-mac-mini/Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://afavaccio.cloud/blog/homelab-kubernetes-on-a-mac-mini/<p>I am building a home server: a three-node Kubernetes cluster on a Mac mini (M4, 16 GB), created entirely from code and managed with GitOps. The repository is <a href="https://github.com/hyesr/homelab">hyesr/homelab</a>. It is at an early stage, and this post covers what runs today and why it is built the way it is.</p> <h2 id="the-stack">The stack</h2> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Layer</th> <th>Tool</th> <th>Role</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Virtual machines</td> <td><a href="https://lima-vm.io">Lima</a></td> <td>Three plain Ubuntu arm64 VMs that can reach each other</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Provisioning</td> <td><a href="https://docs.ansible.com">Ansible</a></td> <td>Installs and configures K3s on the VMs</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Kubernetes</td> <td><a href="https://k3s.io">K3s</a></td> <td>One control plane and two workers</td> </tr> <tr> <td>GitOps</td> <td><a href="https://fluxcd.io">Flux</a></td> <td>Reconciles the cluster from the repository</td> </tr> <tr> <td>TLS</td> <td><a href="https://cert-manager.io">cert-manager</a></td> <td>Internal certificate authority for the apps</td> </tr> <tr> <td>First app</td> <td><a href="https://gethomepage.dev">Homepage</a></td> <td>A dashboard for the homelab</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Each VM has 2 vCPUs, 2 GiB of RAM and a 20 GiB disk. The whole cluster comes up with one command:</p>