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…
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…
What started as a portable Proxmox server has officially become my Data Center in a Bag project. For Part 6, the goal sounded simple: make the Minecraft Bedrock servers behind pfSense accessible to devices connected to the…
Phase 1 of the “JARVIS OS” project: a scheduled daily brief, built from real data, delivered into a notes vault. I wanted an assistant that could start my day for me: check my calendar, scan…
October 8, 2026 After four years of on-and-off studying, multiple exam attempts, labs, practice tests, rescheduling, and more subnetting than I care to admit, I can finally say it: I passed the Cisco CCNA 200-301…
Until this point, every major test of my portable Proxmox environment had happened inside my home lab. The network topology worked. The virtual machines worked. Firezone provided remote access. AdGuard handled DNS. pfSense separated the…
The first few stages of my portable homelab project were mostly concerned with getting services running. Proxmox was installed on an older HP laptop, containers and virtual machines were created, Firezone provided remote access, AdGuard…