Ramblings on IT and Security

Tag: hypervisor

Proxmox Meets Enterprise PKI

Over the past few months, I’ve been writing extensively about building and configuring Microsoft Enterprise PKI (AD CS). And if you’re anything like me, you probably run some kind of home lab where you test ideas before deploying them at work.

At the same time, there’s a noticeable shift happening in the industry. Proxmox is showing up more and more, not just in home labs, but increasingly in enterprise environments as well. The same applies to my own setup. I’ve been running Proxmox for over two years now and I genuinely like the platform.

One thing that has been bothering me for a while, however, is that it uses a self-signed certificate for its management web interface. While the connection itself is still encrypted and protected (contrary to popular belief), it simply isn’t how things should be in a properly managed environment. So let’s fix that.

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Advanced QEMU/KVM Networking on Ubuntu

Transitioning between Operating Systems can be a challenge. Many aspects of what you’re used to work differently and you should expect a learning curve.

Well, that was a weird intro for a blog post that has Linux networking in the title! Actually I’m saying goodby to Windows as my primary system…. yes you read that correctly. It’s not that I don’t like the system anymore, it’s the direction Microsoft is taking with AI and the integration into the OS that made me take this decision.

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