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Migrating Longhorn Backup from MinIO to Garage
How to replace MinIO with Garage as the S3 backend for Longhorn backups — setup, bucket config, Kubernetes secret, and HelmRelease update.
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SSH Hardening - Securing Your Linux Servers
Practical SSH hardening for production Linux servers — key-based auth, sshd_config, 2FA, host-based auth, fail2ban, and log monitoring.
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Restoring from Longhorn Backups
How to restore Kubernetes applications from Longhorn backups in MinIO — scale down, remove empty PVCs, restore volumes, create PVs/PVCs, and bring everything back up.
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Inside My Homelab - 2026
A living breakdown of my homelab in 2026 — Proxmox cluster, Talos Kubernetes, GitOps with Flux, backup strategy, and every service I'm running. Auto-synced via OpenClaw.
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SMB Authentication with AD on Linux
How to integrate Linux SMB file servers with Active Directory using SSSD, Samba, Kerberos, and realmd — tested on RHEL 8 and OpenSUSE 15.6.
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Networking Specialist: My CCNA Journey
Follow my complete journey from networking beginner to CCNA certified professional - including study methods, practical labs, challenges, and how this certification opened doors to cybersecurity opportunities.
4 min read
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