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Building a SOAR Platform with Shuffle in Your Homelab
PROJECTJun 17, 2026

Building a SOAR Platform with Shuffle in Your Homelab

Deploy Shuffle, the open-source SOAR platform, to automate security workflows and orchestrate your homelab tools — from Wazuh alerts to enrichment lookups...

DockerDocker ComposeGit+1
11 min read3-5 hours
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Teleport PAM: Zero-Trust Privileged Access for Your Homelab
PROJECTJun 10, 2026

Teleport PAM: Zero-Trust Privileged Access for Your Homelab

Deploy Teleport's open-source privileged access management platform to replace static SSH keys with short-lived certificates, enforce MFA, record every...

Teleport v18Docker Composetctl (Teleport CLI)+2
11 min read3-5 hours
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Building a Wazuh XDR + SIEM Homelab
PROJECTJun 3, 2026

Building a Wazuh XDR + SIEM Homelab

Deploy a full Wazuh stack in Docker to gain host-based intrusion detection, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability scanning, and active response across your…

DockerDocker ComposeWazuh Manager+3
14 min read3-5 hours
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Runtime Security Monitoring with Falco: Detect Container
PROJECTMay 27, 2026

Runtime Security Monitoring with Falco: Detect Container

Deploy Falco on a Docker host to monitor container syscalls at the kernel level, write custom homelab detection rules, and route real-time alerts through.

DockerDocker ComposeFalco+5
12 min read3-5 hours
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Pi-hole v6 + Unbound: Network-Wide DNS Sinkhole with Recursive Resolution
PROJECTMay 20, 2026

Pi-hole v6 + Unbound: Network-Wide DNS Sinkhole with Recursive Resolution

Deploy Pi-hole v6 as a network-wide DNS sinkhole backed by Unbound as a self-hosted recursive resolver — eliminating ads, trackers, and malware domains...

DockerDocker ComposePi-hole v6+3
11 min read2-3 hours
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Build a Production Monitoring Stack with Prometheus and Grafana
PROJECTMay 13, 2026

Build a Production Monitoring Stack with Prometheus and Grafana

Deploy a full observability stack — Prometheus metrics collection, Grafana dashboards, AlertManager notifications, and three exporters — all containerized...

DockerDocker ComposePrometheus+5
8 min read3-5 hours
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Building a Production-Ready Reverse Proxy with Traefik v3
PROJECTApr 29, 2026

Building a Production-Ready Reverse Proxy with Traefik v3

Deploy Traefik v3 as a Docker-native reverse proxy with automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, label-based routing, and security middleware — no more port juggling...

DockerDocker ComposeTraefik v3+2
10 min read3-5 hours
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Self-Hosted Password Manager with Vaultwarden
PROJECTApr 22, 2026

Self-Hosted Password Manager with Vaultwarden

Deploy a fully self-hosted, Bitwarden-compatible password manager using Vaultwarden on Docker with Caddy reverse proxy, automatic TLS, WebSocket...

DockerDocker ComposeCaddy+3
10 min read2-4 hours
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Velociraptor DFIR: Endpoint Forensics and Incident Response
PROJECTApr 8, 2026

Velociraptor DFIR: Endpoint Forensics and Incident Response

Deploy Velociraptor — the open-source DFIR platform — to collect forensic artifacts, run live endpoint hunts with VQL, and build an incident response...

VelociraptorDockerDocker Compose+3
11 min read3-5 hours
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