A Change in Motion – Rate of Failure Multiplied

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  • CIS Level 2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 with DoD approved ACAS (Tenable/Nessus Essentials)

    If you are not already familiar with Department of Defense standards for cyber security there is no better time to start reading about it. There is a great writeup here on SecureTrux on definition of an ACAS. ACAS is primarily a Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) suite of software vulnerability scanning tools for networks and applications. Following…

    April 6, 2025
  • LXC NFS mount, Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts, and Jellyfin

    Well, this has been a slow process getting here – I have tried to get the LXCs to share the NFS mount from the host NODE for a while. I did manage to bypass the problem using normal VMs in Proxmox (see post). You can see an early failure below from before I understood the…

    February 18, 2025
  • CEPH & high availability implementation in a Proxmox cluster!

    If you look back on one of my earlier posts on CEPH you can see it did not go so well. I didn’t really understand how it functioned in Proxmox. I knew it was a distributed storage and allowed for High Availability across the cluster but wasn’t certain on the install process. After a bit…

    January 11, 2025
  • Lets cause some ruckus! Kubernetes in a Proxmox LXC – what could go wrong?

    Last times journey in LXC containers reveal an incredible simply way to install Linux containers with “pvecm available” and I spun up three containers. This was the sole reason behind buying four Elitedesk 800 G4s – to get away from Kubernetes installs on Raspberri Pi 4s. Way easier to learn if I don’t waste a…

    December 22, 2024
  • Proxmox LXC – What can I do with these?

    Well, off to the races! I shift objectives so quickly! Well, thanks to this [deleted] post I quickly came to understand the process of grabbing these Linux OS templates: https://images.linuxcontainers.org/ – of course it is never quite as simple as one would hope. Manage to download and execute the container in Proxmox – however, it…

    December 20, 2024