PiHole DNS Server running in Kubernetes
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Chris Phillips
Holiday Project Part 1
During my two weeks off of work I set myself the challenge to move as much of my home network infrastructure to Kubernetes as possible. My wife has often questioned “Why do you need any network Infrastructure, other then a wifi point?”. This article is not going to address that question. What is PiHole (https://pi-hole.net/)
PiHole is an awesome DNS Server that includes an AdBlocker. I know AdBlockers are controversial. I primarily use it to add custom domains to my network and use the awesome web interface to review what sites my kids go to. It was originally developed to run on the Raspberry Pi but has since had a docker release.
PiHole in Kubernetes
At this point I am going to assume the readers her know about Kubernetes. If you do not take a google and a browse.
The Helm chart I have published here https://github.com/ChrisPhillips-cminion/pihole-helm is a very basic helm chart that deploys a single pod with a single pihole container.
In the values file, you can specify which domain the ingress should listen to for the web interface. In addition you can specific any additional dnsmaq entries. It includes a white list generated from the scripts at https://github.com/anudeepND/whitelist.
I have only used it with Persistent storage but it should work without it.
By Chris Phillips on December 26, 2018.
Exported from Medium on April 6, 2019.