k3s Homelab Kubernetes Starter Kit

What's Inside

• 📦Cluster setup scripts — annotated install scripts for your control plane and worker nodes, plus a post-install health check that confirms nodes, DNS, and storage are all green
• 📦Annotated YAML manifests — Deployment, Service, Ingress, ConfigMap, and Secret examples with WHAT/WHY/GOTCHA comments at every non-obvious line
• 📦Helm quickstart — install the k3s-maintained chart repos, deploy Traefik as your ingress controller, and route real traffic to a real app
• 📦Persistent storage guide — how k3s's built-in local-path provisioner works, the node-pin gotcha that breaks StatefulSets, and annotated PVC examples
• 📦NFS storage config — add shared persistent storage across all three nodes when you outgrow local-path
• 📦Troubleshooting cheat sheet — the 15 failure patterns that stop homelab clusters cold, with exact kubectl diagnostic commands and fix procedures
• 📦Docker Compose migration guide — side-by-side mapping of Compose concepts to Kubernetes equivalents so nothing feels alien