Production-minded Templates Guides Self-hosted

Ship homelab stacks with confidence.

Curated Kustomize bases, overlays, scripts, and setup guides that mirror production practices. Build fast, stay secure, and keep your cluster tidy.

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What you get

Applications

Kustomize manifests for apps like Grafana, Authentik, and more.

KustomizeAppsHelm

Kubernetes Stack

Base layers for K3s, VIP, MetalLB, Traefik, CertManager, Longhorn, and Multus.

K3sNetworkingStorage

Operators

CloudNativePG and other operators with sane defaults for homelab.

PostgresCRDs

Hardware Guides

Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu hardening steps with illustrated walkthroughs.

Raspberry PiUbuntuHardening

Scripts

Helper scripts for cluster maintenance and storage trimming.

ShellAutomation

Community & Support

Contributor guide, security policy, and support info to collaborate smoothly.

CoCContributingSecurity

Workflow spotlights

Start fast

Clone, pick the stack, apply. Kustomize bases keep drift low and updates repeatable.

git clonekustomize buildapply

Harden early

Security-minded defaults across K3s, networking, storage, and auth so you do not forget the guardrails.

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Customize safely

Overlays and components let you layer changes without breaking the base. Version, test, repeat.

OverlaysComponentsDiffable

Quick links

Get Started

Clone the repo and pick the folder that matches your stack.

git clone https://github.com/aessing/boilerplates.git

Docs & Media

Browse README files and visual guides. Screenshots live in media/.

DocsMedia

Issues & Ideas

Open an issue to propose features or report bugs before coding.

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