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2025

Architecture overview: Designing a Self-Managing Linux Fleet
1499 words·8 mins
Projects Development Infrastructure Network Architecture
I needed an All-Terrain Linux fleet that could take care of itself: configure, monitor, patch, and protect itself across any environment. This post covers the architecture I designed to make that happen.
Linux Iptables quick reference
1197 words·6 mins
Linux Terminal Shell Firewall Reference Network Networking
iptables in 5 Minutes: a quick cheat-sheet for quick rule edits, safe testing, and making changes stick, without tripping over firewalld, UFW, or nftables.
Booting a private AWS EC2 instance with Tailscale
850 words·4 mins
Tailscale AWS Server Sysadmin Network Reference
Booting up an AWS EC2 Instance with Tailscale baked in for a quick homelab testing environment
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. Link to Github repository: Argandov/Engineering-Patterns Monorepo for a collection of infrastructure & automation patterns for different purposes. Python 1 0

2021

Running NetworkMiner on Linux
524 words·3 mins
Reference Linux Forensics Network
Using Mono utility to run NetworkMiner, a Windows utility for PCAP analysis