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Deploy a Free Self-Hosted Gist Website on GCP’s e2-micro using Cloudflared
Published: at 06:13 AMSet up a free GCP e2-micro VM to host a self-hosted Gist with Opengist, secured via Cloudflare Tunnel — no cost, no open ports, fully controlled by you.

Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO) Review
Published: at 10:08 AMShort review of the Certified Red Team Operator certification: course quality, lab environment, exam format and the AD/red teaming skills I realistically gained from it.

Setup ELK and monitor App's Logs
Updated: at 06:05 AMHow I wired a simple blog app’s logs into Elasticsearch: quick ELK + Nginx setup and a Winston + winston-elasticsearch logger inside a TypeScript ElysiaJS/Bun backend.

SSH Certificate Authentication
Published: at 10:22 AMMinimal SSH certificate authentication lab: three Docker containers (CA, client, server) where we create a CA key, sign a user key and test SSH logins with certificates.