This Week's Update

Things I have been up to while off LinkedIn:

• Working on my home lab by setting up k3s for High Availabilty servers for critical services in the lab
• Learning more about VMs, Nginx, and Reverse Proxies
• Learning about Certbot
• Failing to set up TWO “beginner-friendly” reverse proxy managers and realizing that learning how to use the CLI more is the best course of action
• Learning how to reconfigure Proxmox IP addresses, failing to keep the cluster, and wiping three nodes clean
• Deciding that I’d keep one node out of the cluster for having one less entrypoint to my network¹
• Setting up InfluxDB for use of monitoring my Proxmox cluster and separate node in Grafana
• Learning Linux commands such as fstab, lsblk, and that you can pretty much do everything you need system wide (rebooting, etc), by prefixing systemctl to those commands
• Creating my own Docker image and container to fix a bug in a repo I want to use but want it to install dependencies and “just work”, as they say
• Installing a self-hosted Git client/website
• Learning that ini files are basically the same as toml files
• Researching how to use WebSockets in Python or Go to understand how someone could use that to exploit a website/machine by keeping the socket alive and using the website/machine as a C2 server
• Working on creating my own C2 server

I’ve been at it nonstop these past two weeks, but I am having serious fun.