The Aviary Node (Cluster Control Plane)

Every swarm needs a reliable hive mind. **The Aviary Node** is a hybrid micro-server and powerful managed switch engineered specifically to serve as the unshakeable K3s Control Plane for your localized cluster. Acting as both the physical network bridge and the Kubernetes master, this node manages scheduling, DNS resolution, and credential vaulting while providing extreme localized bandwidth to your edge nodes. It is the core management and switching layer of the **Aviary OS**. **Hardware Specifications:** - **Compute:** Intel Processor N105 (or better) - **Memory:** 16GB LPDDR5 RAM - **Storage:** 512GB PCIe NVMe - **Networking:** 6x 2.5GbE Intel i226-V Ports (Minimum) **Software Payload (Aviary OS Core):** - K3s Master Node (Control Plane) - AdGuard Home (Primary network-wide DNS) - Vaultwarden (Encrypted credentials management) - Ansible Semaphore (Automated infrastructure UI) *Built-to-order. Pre-configured with the Fin-Hawk baseline.*