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About Me:

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Hey, I'm Jin. My interests lie in operating systems, programming, networking, and the intersection of all these things within information security.

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MODERN ADMINISTRATION CRASH COURSE
This is an attempt to cover multiple faucets of modern administration. We'll be doing this by setting up an extensive hybrid Active Directory home-lab with Proxmox and automating as much as we can via IaC/scripting. First, we'll handle the deployment of on-premises infrastructure and the accompanying network to support it. After that, we'll incorporate the cloud components. Lastly, we'll move onto what it takes to support a SaaS and the accompanying CI/CD required.
CONFIGURING PROXMOX FOR TERRAFORM AND WINDOWS IMAGE PREPERATION
7/18/2025
Terraform
Proxmox
Windows
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Laying the ground work for a hybrid AD, IaC home lab on Proxmox. We'll setup the Terraform provider for Proxmox and an early form of secrets management suited for a single contributor. Also, we'll do the manual work required to prepare a baseline Windows 2025 image for use in the deployment.

DEPLOYING TO PROMOX WITH TERRAFORM AND BASH
7/20/2025
Bash
Terraform
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The focus in this post is mainly on Terraform, explaining some of the core behaviors & tools within Terraform. A bit of bash scripting is included as well, mainly to circumvent an unexpected problem with the Terraform deployment.

INTEGRATING ANSIBLE WITH TERRAFORM FOR A DOMAIN CONTROLLER DEPLOYMENT
8/7/2025
Ansible
Windows
Terraform
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With all of the work needed to deploy the virtual machines done, this post centers around configuring them. We cover integrating Ansible with Terraform in a secure manner. A bit of bash scripting is in this one as well since IPv6 addresses must be accounted for. Additionally, as we are configuring domain controllers, we start to examine the requirements for Active Directory.