Network
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