DustBowl.Games
Community game server hosting
I started and operate this game server hosting platform on my own Kubernetes cluster. The site runs on Blazor Server with CloudNativePG, Helm, and Gitea CI/CD.
Kubernetes Blazor PostgreSQL Helm Traefik
Homelab & Cluster
The infrastructure behind it all
Harvester HCI supports a 6-node RKE2 cluster that hosts 60+ services, distributed storage, HA databases, GitOps, and monitoring.
Harvester HCI RKE2 Longhorn CloudNativePG ArgoCD Gitea CI
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Homelab & Cluster
Kubernetes on bare metal
This is the platform behind DustBowl.Games and WyattJohnson.tech. Harvester HCI runs beneath a 6-node RKE2 cluster with 60+ services, distributed storage, HA databases with off-site backups, GitOps, admission control, and monitoring.
Hardware 3× Beelink EQi12 mini PCs: 16 cores / 64 GiB each Dell PowerEdge R740xd: 80 cores / 256 GiB, iDRAC-managed Harvester HCI v1.7.1 hyperconverging compute + storage Custom 3D-printed rack mounts; ~120 W idle draw Platform & orchestration Guest RKE2 Kubernetes: 3 control-plane + 3 worker nodes kube-vip HA API server with MetalLB L2 load balancing Traefik ingress + cert-manager (Let's Encrypt & internal CA) Managed through Rancher GitOps & CI/CD Self-hosted Gitea with native Actions runners Pipeline: build, Semgrep + Trivy scan, then push to the internal registry ArgoCD for GitOps continuous deployment Helm + Kustomize for application delivery Storage & data Longhorn distributed block storage 18 PostgreSQL clusters via the CloudNativePG operator Nightly off-site backups to Wasabi S3 (90-day retention) Networking & access VLAN-segmented network with dual Pi-hole DNS (HA, DNS-over-HTTPS) Cloudflare Tunnel for public HTTP/S with zero inbound ports External WireGuard proxy with game-aware DDoS filtering for UDP (~10–15 ms) Observability & security Prometheus + Grafana, InfluxDB, and Beszel host monitoring Public uptime monitoring via Uptime Kuma Kubewarden admission policies + hourly CIS benchmark scans Vaultwarden-managed secrets; MFA on every admin surface What it runs 60+ containerized services spanning public, personal, and platform workloads:
Public sites: dustbowl.games and this portfolio AI and automation: Open WebUI (Ollama) and n8n workflows Productivity: Outline wiki, Linkwarden, Vikunja, snippet manager Media and home: Home Assistant, Paperless-ngx, family apps Platform: Grafana, Rancher, ArgoCD, Gitea, Vaultwarden