IPTables Firewall v2.8 with CrowdSec Blocklists

Introduction to the Updated Firewall Setup In this updated blog post, we introduce a new version of our Linux IP Tables firewall configuration script that we incorporate next to the powerful CrowdSec blocklist feature. This integration significantly enhances security by leveraging community-maintained threat intelligence feeds, providing robust protection against various network threats. We allow for…

GitLab Self-Hosted Clean Up: Old Pipelines and Jobs

If you’re running a self-hosted GitLab instance, you might eventually accumulate a large number of old pipelines and jobs that are no longer useful. These can clutter your project dashboards and consume unnecessary storage space. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to clean up these unused resources using a Python script. This solution assumes…

Traefik v3 via File Provider with CrowdSec for Plex

This guide walks you through setting up Traefik v3 as a reverse proxy using the file provider for dynamic configuration. We’ll deploy it to serve Plex (via plex.randomdomain.com) and a general website (www.randomdomain.com), with CrowdSec integration for security. The real neat thing we do in this example is setup a TCP router and service for…