Pi-Hole is an excellent solution to block ads, trackers and malware network-wide at the DNS level. With a few tweaks, it can be a great asset for privacy on the Internet.
Setting up unbound is simple. Getting it to work on Debian Buster with DNS-over-TLS is no rocket science either but does require some fine-tuning explained in this article.
This article covers the specifics of getting OpenVPN to work on unprivileged containers with Proxmox VE 5.2 and the configuration specifics for a site-to-site link.
CTFd is a nice and easy to use CTF management platform based on Python. This article gives a straight guide for quick deployment on a bare Ubuntu 18.04 VM/Container, in case you cannot use Docker.
Following performance issues with my all-in-one IPS/Router setup on my home network, I decided to split it between a pfSense-based IPS and a Linux-based router. This article explains why I made that choice, how I revised my architecture and the resulting implementation.
Icinga started out as a Nagios refactor. It has now become so much more, and is a pretty solid tool to monitor efficiently an heterogeneous system with minimal effort. Along with the InfluxDB time-series and the Grafana visualization tool, it can be used to build a modern and reactive NOC platform starting point.
If you read this, you've probably been there: you're the family's IT guy, and every now and then you fix a computer. Potentially full of malware and other nasty stuff. This article discusses my approach to being a nice guy without endangering my own machines.
