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Continued from the original Welcome thread!
I’m still “around”! Welcome to all newcomers!
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I’m also still around, I’m just sporadically appearing and disappearing. (still stuck on trying to create a bootable, read-only, image of linux from a compiled code base lol.)
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hey everyone sorry i’ve been gone for the past 2 weeks or so but i’ve been busy with school and everything else and working on my home lab but i’ve finally got it up and running and im proud to say this is all that i have been able to accomplish with it:
Home Lab & Technical Projects Event-Driven Automation & Hybrid-Cloud Management
Autonomous Monitoring Agent: Architected a real-time, event-driven Discord bot using the n8n automation engine to provide remote telemetry and command execution for a multi-node Proxmox environment.
Secure Tunneling & Integration:Bridged cloud APIs with local Linux infrastructure over a Tailscale mesh VPN, enabling secure SSH automation and remote management without exposing public firewall ports.
Custom Bash Scripting:Authored and optimized shell scripts to parse Linux hardware utilization (Xeon CPUs, NVIDIA GPU thermals/loads) and Proxmox hypervisor guest states (qmlist) directly to mobile devices.
API & Systems Troubleshooting: Enforced infrastructure security via API Privileged Gateway Intents and successfully debugged Linux daemon configuration hierarchy overrides (sshd_config) alongside deprecated NPM package dependencies.
Private Cloud & Virtualization Infrastructure Hardware Architecture: Engineered an enterprise-grade home server utilizing a Dell Precision T7910 with dual Intel Xeon processors (56 threads) and 128GB RAM. Configured high-performance, fault-tolerant storage architectures utilizing a 4-drive SSD RAID array for rapid application delivery alongside a high-capacity 4-drive SAS ZFS RAID pool for bulk data retention.
Hypervisor Administration: Deployed and actively manage Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment). Successfully allocated resources to prevent hypervisor bottlenecks, tuning vCPUs, memory ballooning, and ZFS ARC limits to ensure zero CPU wait time across multiple intensive workloads.
Network Security & Routing (OPNsense): Virtualized an OPNsense firewall instance within the Proxmox environment to serve as the primary network gateway. Configured core routing protocols, DHCP services, and secure GUI access interfaces to logically isolate and protect local VM infrastructure.
Zero-Trust Networking: Augmented edge security by implementing a “Zero Trust” architecture using Tailscale (WireGuard encapsulation) alongside OPNsense, allowing secure, remote access to server resources without exposing public ports. Managed local file sharing protocols (SMB/Samba) with strict read/write access controls.
Service Deployment & Media Automation Linux Systems Administration: Provisioned and tuned an Ubuntu Server Virtual Machine (VM) tailored for high-performance application hosting. Managed containerized applications using CasaOS as a centralized dashboard.
Database & Application Optimization: Deployed Shoko Server, actively managing its SQLite/MySQL database across the SSD array to mitigate I/O wait times and maximize throughput. Continuously optimized worker threads and hash concurrency to process massive backlogs of over 1,400 tasks efficiently.
Hardware Transcoding:Configured Jellyfin media server to utilize specialized NVIDIA NVENC/NVDEC chips for hardware-accelerated 4K video transcoding, dramatically reducing CPU overhead.
Local AI & Machine Learning Deployment GPU Virtualization: Successfully configured bare-metal PCI Passthrough in Proxmox, granting the Ubuntu VM direct access to a pooled 12GB of VRAM across dual GPUs (NVIDIA Quadro P4000 and GTX 1650).
Private LLM Hosting: Deployed Ollama locally via the Linux terminal to run open-source Large Language Models (like Llama 3). Demonstrated a strong understanding of data sovereignty and isolation by keeping AI processing entirely on-premises rather than relying on external cloud APIs.
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im a linux beginner, studying how linux distro is built internally. im building my own while learning.
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