GenericITCoy

A generic IT company homelab series.

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About Us

GenericITCoy stands for Generic IT Company or Generic IT Decoy, depending on your mood. It's a homelab project with the following goals.

  • Learn about Kubernetes
  • Implement SSO across a range of applications
  • Create a 3-2-1 backup for the lab environment

This project has covered a wide range of applications from Identity Providers to virtualization templates to kubernetes clusters. Previous deployments were all done via docker, so one of the challenges has been transitioning from docker deployments to kubernetes. Another challenge has been learning a new reverse proxy - K3s (the flavour of kubernetes used) defaults to Traefik for ingress control whereas previously nginx or haproxy were used.

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Services

Some of the services on offer by GenericITCoy

Single Sign-On

One set of credentials for every application.

Cloud Files

One place to store files securely accessible anywhere.

Streaming

A front end to watch media anywhere.

Source Control

A centralized store for scripts and configurations

Frequently Asked Questions

What virtualization platform do you use?

Proxmox Virtual Environment

What Kubernetes do you do?

K3s with Flannel, MetalLB, and Traefik.

How do you come up with ideas?

I see a service I want to use and say - "I can self host that."