HomeLab – OPNSense CrowdSec Multi-Server

This post will be edited over time, just recently achieved a level of functionality that might bear sharing. Goal: A HomeLab setup that protects itself This HomeLab has at its core an OPNSense Router, switch infrastructure, several VMs, a few Docker environments, and specifically for this version of this post: with cron updating near all…

Web Host Backup Script

This is a script I have developed to back up my hosting environment, and it actually consists of two. One to be started by cron, and then it starts the other. This allows for a modular setup between your environments (apache/nginx/etc). The scripts: backup.sh #!/bin/bash # Web Host Backup # Cron Version # Jim McKibben…

Scientific Linux 7.1 + ELK + Rivers

Are you interested in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Rivers (JDBC+MySQL)? Then this ELK guide is for you. We are building this with Scientific Linux 7.1 and the latest versions of each available at the moment. I sourced information on how to do this from: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7 http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/setup-repositories.html https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Security_Guide/sec-Using_Firewalls.html https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-jdbc Install SL 7.1 Find your local mirror:…