random notes, guides, and thoughts…
November 3, 2016
Some applications don’t properly support IP blackholing in the case of failed login attempts. There’s a few ways to handle that, but one nice way is to make use of nginx in the front of the application to apply rate limiting.
September 27, 2016
Now we’re getting into some pretty serious magic. This post will outline how to put together OpenWRT and ELK Stack to collect network utilization statistics with Netflow. From there, we can use Kibana to generate visualizations of traffic data and flows and whatever else you want to leverage with the power of Elasticsearch.
September 23, 2016
I’m messing around with OwnCloud at the moment, a solution to provide cloud-like access to files and folders through a webapp using your own local storage. As is my want, I’m doing it in Docker.
August 27, 2016
If you’re using Vagrant with VirtualBox on Windows, create a new directory, throw the source mp4 in it, then create a Vagrantfile like this;
August 26, 2016
Since I’m converting all my builds and other things to use Ansible, the idea of using Ansible to customize a Vagrant box is very attractive.
August 26, 2016
So, you want to try out Vagrant, and you’re using Windows with Cygwin? Have I got something for you!