https://www.portainer.io I have a pretty good understanding of docker from using the command like, but I like to visually see what’s going on. I find it helps me gain a better understanding of what’s doing what, and even exposing settings and configuration options that are not really mentioned or talked about when using the command…
Month: November 2022
Authentication using Authentik
What I looked at, how I deployed it, what I have integrated with it. In completing my Masters Degree my final Capstone topic was to be on an Emerging Technology. Back in 2019, I selected new new yet to be ratified protocol Webauthn. Webauthn is a standard for using PKI instead of passwords to authenticate…
Goals for my Home Lab
Here’s What I want to Acheive The aim of what I am trying to do is get experience in building up my network to be as secure as possible, with proper segmentation and firewalling, proper authentication to all services with SSO. As well as device and network visibility I have got some basic network monitoring,…
Infrastructure Software
VMware The Base Level Infrastructure of the stack is the Virtualisation platform. When I only has the single NUC I was using the Free Base version of ESXi. With the Second one I also just started with the base level ESXi. but I really wanted to be able to have a central management point for…
Hardware V.1
As you can see, I have a pretty simple, and small footprint for my hardware, most of it is on the top shelf or racking in the cupboard in my office. Obviosly there are switches, AP’s and Raspberry Pi’s in the locations where they need to be, Compute Intel NUC Asus NUC Network Watchguard T80…
Building Blocks
In starting to build out my home lab to have all the bells and whistles, I wanted to move from a 2 stand alone ESXi hosts (running on NUC’s) to be more “Enterprise” and running it on the full VMware stack. The VMware User Group has a membership that comes with all the VMware licenses…