Cloud
2025
Firewall Inception: My pfSense Lab with Proxmox, Cloudflared, and Tailscale
2653 words·13 mins
Projects
AI
Development
Infrastructure
Cloud
Programming
A simple pfSense ACL project turned into a homelab adventure: Proxmox networking, Cloudflared proxying, and Tailscale inception for remote access.
Who's monitoring my monitoring Infrastructure? Desigining for observability with Grafana stack
1922 words·10 mins
Projects
Network
Development
Cloud
Infrastructure
Cybersecurity
In this post, I go through the design process of setting up a monitoring stack with Grafana and Prometheus, along with a couple of Prometheus custom node exportes, inside a Tailscale network, to monitor a SIEM collection infrastructure stack.
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Argandov/Engineering-Patterns Monorepo for a collection of infrastructure & automation patterns for different purposes. Python 1 0
Logs as Code: Building Iris
1297 words·7 mins
Projects
Cloud
Security
A weekend project turned into Project Iris - A serverless ETL pipeline that bridges the gap between modern vulnerability management and SIEM platforms. This first post dives into the first decisions, challenges, and lessons learned in building a cost-effective, secure, and scalable solution using Google Cloud Platform.
2024
CSPM Pt 1 Deepfence Threatmapper Installation & Tests
267 words·2 mins
Projects
AWS
Cloud
HomeLab
Infrastructure
Networking
Cybersecurity
I’m installing and testing Deepfence’s Threatmapper for the first time, an Open Source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) - To test it against some use cases and understand it a bit better.