Secure Home VPN
Once upon a time I used to rely on nothing but a Secure Shell for access to my internal network, however this became more and more impractical the more things I stood up on the network and the more things I needed acc...
Resilient Infrastructure On a Shoestring
My personal infrastructure has gone through a number of iterations. Starting as a 450mhz Pentium 3 Ubuntu 7.04 server running SMB on a single 5400 RPM IDE disk cobbled together through a BT home hub and some cheap meg...
BIND DNS and OpenSSL Certificate Authority
This project came from the back of my desire to learn more about public key certificates ahead of deploying a two tier PKI for an enterprise network, ahead of this I thought it would be prudent to try something a litt...
Netbox - 502 Bad Gateway During Large Changes
Netbox is an incredible tool and I’ll happily say I don’t know how I worked before I was introduced to it, scrabbling around in leviathan (non version controlled) spreadsheets and SharePoint pages that try to perform ...
Ansible Tower - The awx Account
One of Ansible’s most brilliant features is Privilege Escalation, the ability to enter the context of a more privileged user following an initial connection to either your local or remote node, however a bizarre littl...