Over-engineering My Home with Kubernetes

Home automation is increasingly popular. However, the one thing that is often overlooked with current solutions is their complete lack of attention to high availability: Typically a failure of your automation hub quickly renders an elegant smart home into an ordinary dumb home.

In the pursuit of building a reliable smart home, we will investigate ways to make the open-source automation platform "home-assistant" highly available by applying Kubernetes to a not quite standard problem. Some might call it over-engineering, others might call it thorough engineering. In any case, by the end of this talk, we will have explored a more exotic use case for Kubernetes.

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1. Over-engineering My Home with Kubernetes @mattgruter 2019-04-03
3. Home
4. Smart Home
5. “I want more than just lights!”
7. Home Assistant
11. 1 Kubernetes +
12. 1 Kubernetes $ kubectl run smarthome --image=homeassistant/home-assistant --port=8123 deployment.apps/smarthome created
13. 1 Kubernetes + YAML
14. 2 Monitoring +
15. 2 Monitoring $ curl https://smarthome.motunui.net/api/prometheus # HELP temp_bedroom sensor.temp_bedroom # TYPE temp_bedroom gauge temp_bedroom{entity="sensor.temp_bedroom",friendly_name="Bedroom temperature"} 21.7 # HELP humi_bedroom sensor.humi_bedroom # TYPE humi_bedroom gauge humi_bedroom{entity="sensor.humi_bedroom",friendly_name="Bedroom humidity"} 41.4
16. Export Pizza Tunes Lights UI Automation
17. 3 “Microservices” +
18. Export UI Automation Pizza Tunes Lights
20. Thank You