Introduction to VMware ESXi As you should know right know having backups of your system is a critial part of protecting your data. Although VMware ESXi host don’t contain data themselve it still is a good practice to backup your configuration to make disaster recovery alot easier and faster. In […]
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Automate PfSense Configuration Backup via curl
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 […]
Continue readingInstalling 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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TP-Link TL-WN722N v3 monitor mode for use with Kali Linux
Introduction Unfortunately TP-Link decided to change the chip in the v3 version of the TL-WN722N that doesn’t support monitor mode out of the box. I came accross a method to enable monitor mode on the v3. Installing the correct drivers for monitoring mode First we need to remove the current […]
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