There has been a lot of changes in my life including a new awesome job aswell as some family stuff, hence so few updates.
But now as i have a few minutes i figured id run down what i have been doing in my homelab and hopefully this will prompt me to update this blog with more articles.
This website used to use Jekyll as its static site generator. I prefer working with static site generators as it means the website needs very little resources and isnt prone to as many vulnerabilities as other CMS’s. This is how i setup automated deployments of this website using Jenkins.
Continue readingWhile i do somewhat trust my ISP, I certainly do not trust my government. There is some traffic going in and out of my network that i’d rather not have tied back to me (Im not talking highly illegal stuff, where anyone or anything gets hurt, think more “downloading linux iso’s” and live streaming uhh iso’s). So, i created a new VLAN for these devices and went about working on routing that traffic over my PIA VPN. Heres how.
Continue readingI have been fiddling with multiple different authentication methods to centralise the authentication across all my devices and services. Im trying to push myself to use FreeIPA more as it seems to be becoming more widley used where using Active Directory isnt suitable. It is also really easy to enable 2FA per user which i find to be a big bonus.
Continue readingZen give out documentation for how to setup IPv6 on their own devices but i didnt find any info on setting it up on pfSense. This question also appears on /r/pfsense and /r/homelab/ occasioanlly so i figured write down how i managed to get it all working.
Continue readingThis is a quick rundown on how to install Telegraf, influxdb and Grafana on a CentOS 7 machine. I am assuming you already have CentOS 7 installed and updated.
Continue readingEveryone loves the Pi-Hole. It does a great job blockig ad’s across your entire network. The admin page is also really useful to see whats been going on. Unfortunately the admin interface only gives details of the last 24 hours. I love graphs and graphing things. So i wanted more data.
Continue readingThe reason for this build was because i wanted to use my office Active Directory users within AWS but without giving each instance direct access to the domain controller. I also wanted some kind of resilience should the VPN’s between my VPC and office went down. Also, being a linux guy, im more comfortable with using LDAP compared to active directory.
Continue readingI have been meaning to learn how to use Elasticsearch for quite some time. I had used it in the past in an ELK stack, but never really understood it all too well. Also, it had been a few years since doing so, so my mind was a little rusty. The way i learn something is to set a little project with that software or tool and see if i can get it working. Which is what i did. At the end, you will end up with Grafana graphs similar to follow.
Continue readingI have recently acquired several Gen6 HP machines (2 x DL160’s & 1 x DL180). These are pretty old pieces of kit, but are reasonably priced. Not too loud and not too power hungry, so they make pretty good homelab machines.
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