By Part 11, the Data Center in a Bag had become a lot more than a single Proxmox laptop. The travel kit now includes: At that point, one problem started becoming obvious: I had enough…
Phase 5 of my “JARVIS OS” project: per-VM monitoring and a dashboard that updates itself. For four phases my homelab assistant told me how my servers were doing once a day. That’s useful, but it’s…
For Part 10 of the Data Center in a Bag project, I finally put the external 1 TB drive to work. Up to this point, most of the project had focused on networking, virtualization, routing,…
Phase 4 of my “JARVIS OS” project: a free neural voice that runs on my own server. Since Phase 2, my morning brief has been read aloud by the stock iPhone voice. It worked, but…
Part 9 of the Data Center in a Bag project turned the travel kit into something I’ve now been actively using for PenTest+ study. After building the Kali Linux container earlier in the series, I…
Part 8 took the Data Center in a Bag back to the firewall. After getting the network architecture cleaned up, routing the protected LAN properly, and adding Kali Linux as a portable security toolbox, I…
Phase 3 of my “JARVIS OS” project: one dashboard for three servers, with a watchdog that doesn’t depend on what it watches. Phase 2 gave my morning brief a voice and a single Server card…
Security Audit Conducted: October 18–19, 2026 How a simple look at website analytics turned into a real-world homelab security investigation involving Docker, Git, cloud credentials, and automated recovery. It Started With a Simple Question I…
Phase 2 of my “JARVIS OS” project: a read-aloud morning brief and a server health check that only speaks up when something is new. In Phase 1 I built a daily brief that lands in…
One of the questions I got after sharing the Data Center in a Bag project was whether Kali Linux could run from the travel kit. That sounded simple enough. The original thought was just to…