Generate Passwords Locally
Generating passwords isn't complicated. You can do it using normal CLI commands. Today, we can't use an easy password like your mother's middle name or your first pets. They need to be long and complicated.
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Warnings and Welcome Banners
A personalized SSH banner is fun. But also most companies have them. It is easy to do the banner. So follow this quick guide and you have one.
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Proxmox Security – Fail2ban
All servers should be protected against Brute Force Attacks. Fail2Ban may reduce the rate of incorrect authentication attempts, but it can't eliminate the risk presented by weak authentication.
Networking
VLAN - Setup How To
VLAN in our home and home lab. How to segregate, allow traffic between VLAN. Networking is the base knowledge we need to run a home lab. This is about how not why, The way is for you to read about.
Talos
Talos on Proxmox
Running a Kubernetes cluster using Talos on Proxmox. Talos is small, efficient and has safety by design. Adding my new favorite to my cluster to replace my K8s and K3s clusters. I will still keep the K0s cluster I have.
Proxmox
Proxmox Datacenter Manager
PDM is a perfect dashboard for our Proxmox setup. Perfect for a home lab, but The current version is now 1.0. It's an open-source, centralized solution providing a single pane of glass view overseeing and managing multiple, independent Proxmox based environments.
News
The Polar Night is finally Over
The Kaamos, also known as the Polar Night, is the time of the year when there are at least 24 consecutive hours of darkness. Kaamos can be long in the North - 52 days.
pfSense + Cloudflare DDNS
If you do not have a fixed IP, you will need a DDNS.
Alpine
Install an Alpine Desktop VM
Sometimes you need a small desktop on the cluster to do stuff. Alpine is a pure Linux OS, it's tiny. Adding a desktop, and it's there, a lightweight, minimalistic and customizable Linux experience in a VM. It uses Open RC, not Systemd.
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year, 2025.
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Merry X-mas
I wish you all happy holidays and a fantastic new year 2025 🎄🎁
IaC
Terraforming Proxmox & VPS
I will outline the process necessary to set up and utilize Terraform, from HashiCorp, within Proxmox, and also how I spin up VPS instances. And a quick word about what is Ansible's role.