This is a curated, opinionated guide to building a full-stack home server from hardware to application. The goal is to provide a linux environment that can manage VMs, containers and microvms with ease. As a platform, it allows the enthusiasts to experiment and try out new stuff such as PCI passthrough, AWS Site-to-Site VPN and more.
You will need the following to get dynamic DNS working on Cloudflare:
Cloudflare as your DNS provider. Migrating from your current DNS provider over to Cloudflare is easy and free whether you are using Godaddy, Namecheap or another one.
Learn how to deploy a demo Python 3 web application on Google Cloud AppEngine. AppEngine is a managed platform on Google Cloud that allows customers to quickly deploy a scalable application without provisoning infrastructure.
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) is considered a common solution to mitigate “shadow IT” and data exfiltration risks on many organization’s journey to cloud.
This post attempts to explain the Border Gateway Protocol in plain English: what it is; how it works at a high level and some of the threats from a security perspective.
The OWASP Top 10 represents a broad consensus about the most common and critical security risks to web applications. It can be used as reference for web application security.
DH key exchange is a critical component in virtually every PKI implementation. Having a working knowledge of what it is and how it works would help in understanding PKI as a whole.
In a cluster setting where TLS mutual authentication is required, it’s not uncommon to see client certificates signed by either self-signed root CA or private CA.
Whether you are troubleshooting or investigating something on AWS, being able to look up user identity across the Cloudtrail event logs can be very helpful.
DH key exchange is a critical component in virtually every PKI implementation. Having a working knowledge of what it is and how it works would help in understanding PKI as a whole.
You will need the following to get dynamic DNS working on Cloudflare:
Cloudflare as your DNS provider. Migrating from your current DNS provider over to Cloudflare is easy and free whether you are using Godaddy, Namecheap or another one.
If you are interested in building a personal blog site in a cost efficent way, this post discusses about creating a website from the ground up with minimal vendor dependency and high levels of autonomy using Hugo and Firebase.
Build and deploy a voice-activated app on Google Home in 10 minutes. The app will respond to your voice command and even play a piece of pre-defined music for you! Not a bad way to celebrate someone’s birthday eh? :-)
A quick “How-to” guide to compiling raspberry-pi programs on Ubuntu 20.04 using pi toolchain. This post takes Pi Zero W (BCM2708 chip) as an example but the approach would be applicable to other Pi systems.
