With version 2.0, my homelab actually will have a load balancer in front of the K8s cluster. In a public cloud environment, the cloud provider would be the ones to provide this. In my case, since load balancing is a pretty light task, I’m using my lower power surface to do the job. I chose HAproxy because I liked it’s simple config file syntax.
Since there was a lot of headroom to run other stuff on my surface in addition to HAproxy, I decided to setup DNS over TLS for my Pi-hole. I decided to use DNSCrypt proxy for this, and updated my Pi-hole to use this as its upstream DNS.
In my K8s at this time, I am running OpenVPN, my website and Folding at home to donate some computing power.
