One Month Update

It’s a little funny to give a one-month update on a blog that’s been live for 2 years, but It’s only been a month since I actively started making new content. So far this month I added some posts that have been in draft status for a bit, and I started re-building my home network (the lab).

I have an old HP 1RU server hanging in the closet that hosts a couple domain controllers, my PKI, and a homegrown VDI solution. It doesn’t get much use since the really important home stuff is on the NAS. My home network is a whopping 4 users and the fans on that server are darn loud, so I spent the last month building an Incus host on a Raspberry PI to host a couple Samba Domain Controllers. This gets the same AD functionality for my tiny environment without the Windows server licenses and noise. Of course, the cost saving comes back as hours spent setting it up, manually configuring replication, and just generally not having support. I guess what I’m saying is this is not an enterprise solution, and I’d probably sell a customer on cloud solutions anyway, but when I’m done with the build scripts my lab setup could make a fine cheap production system for a small company.

Upcoming I’ll be adding some Info Security sections to the site, and I’ll be moving my scripts over to my github repos, which have also been neglected recently.

If there’s anything you’re interested in learning about, or you have a problem you want me to work on, then please reach out. Leave a comment or meet me on Discord