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After setting up your VM and installing Windows 11 Pro, you'll need to configure some DNS routing to make sure your VMs can reach your Domain Controller. I've done this via my OPNsense router and I'll be using "User 2" to demonstrate, Windows 11 Pro VM I've se...

With everything configured properly, you should now be able to join your User VM to the Domain/Workgroup. To do this, navigate to Settings ---> About ---> Domain or workgroup in your Windows Settings: Select Change and enter your Domain details. You will be...

First, lets confirm we've successfully added the Employee VMs to the domain. Navigate to Windows Administrative Tools ---> Active Directory Users and Computers ---> your domain ---> Computers: Here, you can see I have 4 Computers connected. Lets move on t...

To get started, I'm going to create an Organizational Unit called "TheCompany". Here, we'll store our Users and Security Groups: The I've made 2 security groups: Sales and Marketing   Marketing SG Properties: Sales SG Properties: Next, I'll load 2...

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Azure Tenant A dedicated and trusted instance of Entra ID. Automatically created when an organization signs up for MS Cloud Services.  Single Tenant Azure Tenants that access other services in a dedicated environment. Multitenant Azure ten...

Always try and enforce the concept of least privilege: Users should only have the level of access required for them to perform their work tasks. Nothing more. User Types Internal Member These users are most likely full time employees in your organization....

Group Types Security Groups Used to manage user and computer access to shared resources Can consist of: Users Devices Service Principles Nested Groups SGs are owned by Users and/or Service Principals Microsoft 365 Group Provides collabora...

To get started with WireGuard in OPNsense, download & install the plug-in available by naviagting through the Web GUI @ System ---> Firmware ---> Plugins:   Instance/Peer Next, find Wireguard under the VPN tab in the menu and select WireGuard. Navigate to...

If you have a Dynamic WAN IP, you'll need to set up some sort of DDNS client. Most ISPs use Dynamic IPs with residential customers, so this is pretty common and there are multiple options for working around this. I currently manage my domains with Cloudflare, ...

The last step of your WireGuard set up involved creating 2 firewall rules. One for your WAN firewall, and one for your Tunnel.  If you haven't done so already, assign your WireGuard VPN as an interface. To do so, navigate to Interfaces ---> Assignments: Se...

To test this, I went to a library and tried connecting to my network via my WireGuard Client: You can see my connection status is active My latest handshake was 2 seconds ago I can connect to local devices when trying to ping or through accessing their ...

There are plenty of static site generators out there: Hugo, Jekyll, Ghost, Gatsby, are just a few popular ones. I've grown to like Hugo as I've found it's speed to be unmatched. To get started, simply follow their installation docs! I'll summarize shortly how ...

Creating a cloud-init template is relatively simple and straightforward to do. Essentially, you'll want to create your VM with base configurations, and then convert it to a template within Proxmox VE. Follow the steps below to create your own template with clo...

Configurations I created my nodes by making clones from an Cloud-init template of an Ubuntu server that I set up. To check out how I created a template with Ubuntu Cloud Images and cloud-init on Proxmox, check out my Proxmox VM Book. After getting getting my...

Host Operating System To get started with Kubernetes, I chose Ubuntu 22.04 Server LTS to use as my host OS. I chose this as I'm most familiar with this and figured it would make learning much smoother.   VM Specs (RAM, CPUs, Storage, etc) Kubernetes doesn't...

Takeaways I decided to start learning Kubernetes by building my own cluster. If you're familliar with any type of DevOps environments, then you know how important it is to understand and orchestrate Kubernetes clusters. I took my normal approach to learning n...