Home K3s Cluster: My Journey Into Self-Hosting & Automation

Why I Did It At first, this was a learning project. I wanted to understand the real nuts and bolts of Kubernetes — not just on paper, but on actual, bare-metal hardware in my home. But over time, it became something more. It became my platform — the place where I host the things I care about, where I experiment, where I break things and fix them again. What I Wanted To learn how things really work under the hood To automate everything — no clicking, no guesswork To host my own services with security and flexibility in mind To power things down when I don’t need them, and boot them up instantly when I do What I Built The stack is simple but powerful: