Introduction to PfSense Configuration Backup Configuring backups is one of the critical parts of a healthy system environment. PfSense has multiple options to setup configuration backups. Since recent updates pfSense has the option to configure the AutoConfigBackup Service that is build in the software. This is a great and easy […]
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Installing VMware PowerCLI on Linux or macOS
Introduction PowerCLI is a command-line interface for managing and automating all aspects of vSphere management, including networking, storage, VMs, guest OS, and more.PowerCLI functions as a collection of PowerShell modules that contain more than 700 cmdlets (commands) to manage VMware infrastructure. PowerCLI runs on top of PowerShell. PowerShell used to […]
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Hardening SSH with Ansible
Introduction This blog post is going to be about hardening your SSH config with Ansible. This guide will be build upon my earlier post about Updating your Homelab with Ansible and Configuring Linux users and SSH keys with Ansible. This post is mainly focused on Ubuntu/Debian systems. For other distro’s […]
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TiZu datacenter homelab – part 1
How it all started If you have read my about page you would know that I have been a homelabber for as long as I can remember. It all started with a Sitecom MD-253 NAS some where around 2011. I needed storage for my media files and I came across […]
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Getting started with Docker and Docker Compose
Introduction What is Docker? Docker is a container runtime that enables you to run applications in containers. A Docker host has the Docker Engine installed and allows you to easily host multiple apps or services each in it’s own container on the host. These containers contain all the code and […]
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