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  • Using Windows Disposable VMs for test and research

    Jan 1, 2021 devops windows packer labs

    Introduction To continue the idea of my previous posts, I want to share a project I have been improving in the last months; I can't imagine the number of times I had to deploy a Windows VM while testing or researching. And something I identified as challenges when doing that are: Baseline configuration Portability …

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  • Why every security professional needs to embrace DevOps and automation

    Oct 14, 2020 thoughts

    If you are a cybersecurity professional, or you plan to become one, at some point, you had or have to deal with building an infrastructure for research, learning, or test something as part of your daily job. About 20 years ago, I found a text written by Eric Raymond called "How to become a hacker," and the …

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  • HOME LAB PART 5: The Ultimate Small Form Factor Server for Home Lab

    Sep 12, 2020 sffpc homelab amd epyc supermicro

    Introduction Today I'm going to share the result of my experience building my home lab. As mentioned in my previous post as a spoiler, I shrank my setup even more and ended with a Mini ITX system bringing together two worlds: "/r/sffpc/" and "r/homelab/." Also, as you may guess from the header, I …

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  • Home Lab Part 4: Shrinking/Consolidating Home Lab

    Aug 15, 2020 supermicro server xeon-d

    And before getting into the server upgrade details, I started to consolidate and optimize the space usage of my home lab; all the devices I had in the rack were short-deep appliances, between 9" deep and some of them even less. While researching, I found an interesting fact, pro audio equipment also uses the 1U …

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  • Home Lab Part 3: Building the first version of my home lab

    May 15, 2020 supermicro server xeon-d vmware fortigate fortiswitch

    Now its time to share the experiences I had while building my home lab. Keep in mind that I began this project back in March 2016. First, I set a group of criteria during the planing of the build of the equipment I wanted to use in the first iteration of my server. The main ones was: RAM Capacity: Because the primary …

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  • Home Lab Part 2: Skills and resources before build one

    Apr 11, 2020 linux python go learning

    To continue with the previous post about home labs before I started to plan and build mine, I would like to recommend a set of topics or skills to learn or improve the knowledge that I consider where very important to have when I started to build my home lab. Learning Linux If you are in TI or you plan to do it, there …

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  • Home Lab Part 1: Why build one?

    Apr 6, 2020 hobbies homelabbing

    So, as I mentioned in the first post of the blog, the homelab topic is going to be frequent in this blog. And I would like to start sharing my experience of why I decided to start a home lab. There are many ways to gain or maintain knowledge, and it may be theoretical or practical, in the best-case scenario both. I …

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  • hello world

    Apr 5, 2020

    I couldn't find a better way to start something with the classic "hello world". The idea of this blog is to communicate, share knowledge and experiences of my everyday interaction with technology. I'm lucky and very grateful to do what I love as a daily job. And during my free time, I like to keep learning …

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  • Using Windows Disposable VMs for test and research
  • Why every security professional needs to embrace DevOps and automation
  • HOME LAB PART 5: The Ultimate Small Form Factor Server for Home Lab
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  • Home Lab Part 3: Building the first version of my home lab
  • Home Lab Part 2: Skills and resources before build one
  • Home Lab Part 1: Why build one?
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