The light is getting brighter!

I think I am at the halfway point and can see the finish line.  Getting to the point that all the stuff I am learning is starting to make sense, and I did it without completely opening the choke!  Baby steps!

I had to reboot the mini dell after a kernel update, and it is running at 33% instead of 45% before the reboot.  I got a lot running on this little box that I am test driving but a lot that I am actually using "production" wise.  I need to get the whole box backed up which I will do this weekend.  This is going to be an interesting couple of weeks.  I have a lot of projects on my plate that I definitely need to get completed.  Funny, a year ago if you had asked me where I would be in a year, I would have said I did not know but I hope that it was in a better position to succeed.  I am still not there yet but at least now I know I am going in the right direction.

Here's to learning new stuff everyday and improving on the stuff you already know!

Happy Humpday 😀

Holy mackerel

It has been over 3 weeks since I last posted!  Wow!  It is what it is, I guess.  Things have been getting better on the learning front.  I have added several new services to my homelab.  Right now I need to get a grasp on how they will work in my environment.  I am probably going to have to remove several services from my mini dell box due to ram usage; the box is at 45 percent now.  It might go down after a reboot which i need to do after the kernel update, but I will see later this week.  I need to update that box to ubuntu 2024 but 2026 is coming out next month possibly and I might go to it and skip 2024.  I should know by next week.  Also spun up a couple of LXC's and VM's on the proxmox server and taking them for a test drive.  I still have not updated Wazuh to the new version but the agents are updated to the version running on the server so I am okay for now. I have 8 instances running in proxmox now with 25% ram usage and less than 10% for cpu.  Considering I have Wazuh and windows server 2022 as part of that listing that's pretty good!

I want to get a lot done this month and a lot of killer upgrades on my plate (wazuh, proxmox, ubuntu server 2022.04 to 2026.04, homeassistant, and possibly test drive windows server 2025.  Maybe!!!!

so much to do and so little time!

Later! 😀

It has been a while, again!

Well a lot has happened in the last couple of weeks.  I have been working on my homelab and it is coming along pretty good now.  I got most of my services updated and installed a couple of new services (filewizard, draw.io, onlyoffice and invoiceninja).  I have a lot more to do in the next couple of weeks.  I have been trying to move a couple of my services to the proxmox server in either VM's or LXC's.

Now I have to work on my Wazuh box after getting it upgraded.  need to upgrade the 2 endpoints I have it monitoring and go from there.

It's been real, lol!

Happy Friday 😀

Time for TV now

Well, it has been a long couple of weeks.  Listen to a lot of online youtube/zoom video with people saying being an introvert does not win the race for getting a job (more or less).  Not sure what to do about that since I am an introvert by nature.  Trying to break out of the shell but I think I need to take baby steps.  In some races winning does count but crossing the finish line also counts.  I need to think about crossing the finish line and stop making the hurdles I need to clear so high for me!

Time for "Leverage"!

Here's to 2026 and crossing the finish line! 😀