While most of my infrastructure and workloads are self-hosted I do rely upon the cloud for certain key parts of my setup.

This saves me from having to worry about two things:

  1. Dealing with chicken/egg scenarios
  2. Services I critically need whether my cluster is online or not.
ServiceUseCost
1PasswordSecrets with External Secrets~$55/yr
CloudflareDomains, Workers, Pages, and R2~$30/yr
GCPVoice interactions with Home Assistant over Google AssistantFree
GitHubHosting this repository and continuous integration/deploymentsFree
Let’s EncryptIssuing SSL Certificates with Cert ManagerFree
MigaduEmail Hosting~$20/yr
PushoverKubernetes Alerts and application notificationsFree
UniFi Site ManagerUniFi External Access ManagementFree
Total: ~$10/mo