Am I nerd enough?

Well we’re gonna find out.

My networking skills will be undergoing a bit of a transformation as the organization I support begins to adopt a DevOps approach to networking, including the deployment of Open Source and other non-traditional networking components, to include automation.

Couple the above facts with the additional desire of wanting to nerd out on my setup at home – one of the more adventurous and anticipated projects will be an attempt to replace my Google Fiber Network Box (GFNB)!

So, this is where I’m going to take notes as I begin gathering information and learning the “new stuff”.  The “new stuff” is a mashup of things for work, home, or both and currently consists of (this list will expand over time):

Replacing the Google Fiber Network Box

Hopefully by using the procedure documented here

Cumulus

Cumulus VX – a free virtual appliance that allows for test driving the “new stuff”

Data Center Management

https://www.racktables.org/

https://www.opendcim.org/

NetBox

Docker

Tutorial

Mattermost

Recipe for (hopefully) enabling in-line video previews

Miscellaneous/Yet to be categorized

ELK

Grafana

Telegraf

Metric tank

Kafka

ONIE – Open Network Install Environment

ZTP – Zero touch provisioning

Active Directory on Linux via SAMBA

Active directory on a trial version of Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Network Monitoring

Zabbix, Nagios, etc for network monitoring

Nagios vs Zabbix Compared

Zabbix font bug

LibreNMS

NGINX Stuff

Passing real source IP address

Passing real source IP address #2

And yet another page dedicated to passing real source IP

One more for good measure

Hypervisors

oVirt – Virtualization Hypervisor

XCP-ng

Proxmox

Security Stuff

Recommendations for TLS/SSL Cipher Hardening

Hardening nginx

Miscellaneous

Apache Guacamole – clientless remote desktop gateway

Some notes regarding setting up Guacamole and UnRaid

Mini-computing – Site 1Site 2  

IPAM – phpipam

Backups — Veeam