I wanted a Windows 11 VM to install itself. No console, no mouse, no “next, next, I accept” — hand the hypervisor a disk and an ISO, come back later, find a working desktop. The same Beckhoff indus...

I wanted an SSH session on a machine that sits behind a network which only lets HTTPS out. Not a fancy requirement: a terminal, on a box I am allowed to use, from my own laptop, without a chain of ...

I spent a full day this week inside the firewall of a single Linux box. Not building a new one, not migrating from one thing to another: just trying to understand the one that was already there. T...

We’ve all been there at least once, if you are like me, many times! A lot of cool ideas, the brain crunching a lot of different layouts, configurations, application and networking deployments and i...

It is a trend nowadays, lots and lots of influencers out there share their projects and know-how about home labbing, here a list of the most prominent in no particular order: Jeff Geerling Webi...

It’s been a long time since I first thought about opening a blog, and here we are. This blog will be all about IT, Tech, and Automation. It serves as a personal online note, how-to guide, and proj...