Overview

Default Installed Applications

Version is the helm chart version, or manifest version. See the Default Applications tab for more info on each application.

Application	Description	Initialization Supported
metallb	Loadbalancer and IP Address pool manager for metal	✅
ingress-nginx	The ingress-nginx controller allows access to the cluster remotely, needed for web traffic	❌
cert-manager	For SSL/TLS certificates	✅
Argo CD	Gitops - Continuous Deployment	✅
Argo CD Appset Secret Plugin	Gitops - Continuous Deployment	✅
ESO	external-secrets-operator integrates external secret management systems like Bitwarden or GitLab	❌
Bitwarden ESO Provider	Bitwarden external-secrets-operator provider	✅
ZITADEL	An identity provider and OIDC provider to provide SSO	✅
Vouch	Vouch proxy allows you to secure web pages that lack authentication e.g. prometheus	✅
Prometheus Stack	Prometheus monitoring and logging stack using loki/promtail, alert manager, and grafana	✅

Minor Notes:

All Default Applications can be disabled through your ~/.config/smol-k8s-lab/config.yaml file, except Argo CD. You can still choose not to install it, but if not installed, smol-k8s-lab will only install: metallb, nginx-ingress, and cert-manager

Optionally Installed Applications

Application/Tool	Description	Initialization Supported
Ciliumdemo	Kubernetes netflow visualizer and policy editor	✅
Home Assistant	Home Assistant, a self hosted, at home IoT management solution.	✅
Kyvernoalpha	Kubernetes native policy management to enforce policies on k8s resources	❌
kepler	Kepler (Kubernetes Efficient Power Level Exporter) uses eBPF to probe energy-related system stats and exports them as Prometheus metrics.	✅
k8up	Backups operator using [restic] to backup to s3 endpoints	✅
k8tz	Timezone environment variable injector for pods and cronjobs	✅
Netmaker	Netmaker is a self hosted vpn management tool	✅
Nextcloud	Nextcloud is a self hosted file server	✅
Mastodon	Mastodon is a self hosted federated social media network	✅
matrix	Matrix is a self hosted chat platform	✅
minio	Self hosted S3 Object Store operator	✅
seaweedfs	Self hosted S3 Object Store	✅

There are plenty more on the side bar, and you can even add your own :)