Building a Home Server Using Kubernetes on Old Laptops

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Recycles old laptops into a k3s home cluster with one-line control-plane setup that runs in ~30 seconds; hardware is a 2013 Dell Latitude (8 GB, 3.7 GHz, 8 cores), an HP Pavilion (4 GB, 2 GHz, 4 cores) and a Surface Pro running Linux. Runs workloads like AdGuard Home, Home Assistant and a personal blog managed with flux gitops, exposed via Cloudflare tunnels. Measured draw is 30 W cluster using Kepler, handled ~10K requests in minutes and ~70K over hours with k6.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:40Agenda
3. 0:59EWaste
4. 1:28Frankenstein
5. 2:04Home Lab
6. 2:30Kubernetes
7. 3:39Overview
8. 4:48Cluster Overview
9. 5:22Phone Support
10. 6:12Applications
11. 7:03Power consumption
12. 7:54Cloudflare tunnels
13. 8:52Conclusion

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