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Now, the first thing we will take a look at before installing any OS on bare metal  is the program called Ventoy. Now, why is this program important ? Well for any operating system install you will need a USB stick on which the OS lives that can then be trans...

Alright! So you have installed OPNSense on your machine of choice and now you want to configure it for its basic settings. At this moment no WAN is connected yet this will be done in the next chapter. The first thing we want to do is open the OPNSense WebGui i...

Next we will have a look at the system settings of your OPNSense box and configure it to your local needs ;).  1. Go to System > Settings > General 2. In here we will choose a hostname and a domain name. You can call your OPNSense router whatever you want but ...

On this page we discuss how to connect your OPNSense router to the internet when you have a dynamic DHCP connection. 

Perfect, so you have obtained a set of static IP addresses from your ISP (Hopefully Deternet ISP ;)) and they have told you that you will have a Fiber PPPoE connection. This could be a /30 a /29 or bigger subnet, but the configuration will be the same for all ...

In the scenario where you don't have access to the main uplink of your ISP e.g you are in a flat where the internet uplink is shared via a centralised router. Or if you have a direct connection from a building to the datacenter then this could also be an inter...

CGNAT is basically the worst setup you can possible have. This means the ISP simply does not have enough IPv4 addresses to give everyone an public IP address be it static or dynamic. In such a case your services will never be publicly accessible because you ge...

  In this tutorial we will setup a Wireguard VPN Instance which will allow you to connect to your local network remotely. That means you can connect to it from any place in this world as if you were at home. This is extremely secure as well since it will u...

Okey now you have setup your Wireguard Instance. Then now it is time to create a peer that can connect to the created instance. OPNSense makes this extremely simple. 1. Just go to VPN > Wireguard > Peer Generator 2. Endpoint: This is the public IP address of y...

Now, that you have setup your Wireguard instance and peer it is time to enable the VPN interface.  1. Go to Interfaces > Assignments > Device drop down menu > Select wgo (Wireguard - VPN_ROOT) and add it as a new interface 2. Then click on the newly created VP...

We are almost there! The last thing we need to do is setup the correct firewall rules. Now, since you will create a root VPN you want this user to have access to all the different networks. Hence, the rules will be pretty simple. Go to Firewall > Rules [New] ...

Setup Caddy Make sure administaration is set to port 8443  also set firewall rules on wan to allow incoming connections on ports 80 and 443. Change the TCP Port to 8443 (example), do not forget to adjust the firewall rules to allow access to the WebGUI. On...

Docker VM Deployment via Dockhand Ntfy is a great notification application that provides you with alarms on your phone or laptop  if anything happens inside your infrastructure. When resource limits are reached or when a new update for a container is available...

Email is definitely one of the notification systems that you need to setup for notifications. Lots of applications use email for user verification, to setup accounts, but also to get notified for events, changes etcetera.  Now, every Email provider has an SMTP...

The first notification system we will setup for Proxmox is by simply using SMTP Email. It is assumed that you already have an email setup somewhere with access to the SMTP credentials. The first thing we will do is setup an email Notification Target 1. Open up...