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Instruments / Craft

What Is CrowdSec and How It Adds Threat Intelligence to Your Homelab

CrowdSec is an open-source security engine with crowd-sourced threat intelligence. Here is what it does, how it works, and why it replaces fail2ban.

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Infrastructure / Field Notes

Hardening Traefik with CrowdSec forwardAuth in a Homelab Reverse-Proxy Stack

Practical homelab guide to wire Traefik forwardAuth with CrowdSec, validate it, and handle the security tradeoffs before production.

03

Infrastructure / Field Notes

Secure Remote Docker Deployments with Proton Pass CLI, Docker Contexts, and SSH

Idempotent remote Docker deploys over SSH with Proton Pass CLI secrets, including the security tradeoffs and mitigations that actually matter.

04

Infrastructure / Field Notes

Pi-hole + Unbound Behind Traefik with a Clean /admin Redirect

How this homelab publishes Pi-hole admin via Traefik while keeping DNS local, with practical hardening steps for the risky defaults.

05

Infrastructure / Field Notes

Running Paperless-ngx Behind Traefik with Internal Network Segmentation (Redis + Postgres)

A homelab-backed Paperless-ngx + Traefik deployment with segmented Redis/Postgres networks, concrete checks, and security hardening lessons.

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Intelligence / Operations

Durable AI-Agent Memory in a Homelab Repo with MCP Setup/Check Scripts

Use setup/check scripts and a Dockerized MCP memory server to keep agent context durable while avoiding secret leakage into repo memory.