• Live-patching QEMU with QEMUCare

    Rebooting is a pain, and in some organizations, downright tedious. Shuffling virtual machines between hosts in a cluster is even more tedious, and when it’s time to install patches, that’s what many administrators are forced to do. In this video, I check out QEMUCare, which aims to live-patch QEMU to avoid VM shuffling. In particular, we’ll look at installing ePortal (which deploys the patches) and also an example scenario.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 6 – Creating Virtual Machine Templates

    Proxmox Virtual Environment is an awesome virtualization solution for your business or home lab, and in this series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to fully utilize it. In this class, we take a look at creating virtual machine templates.

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  • Taking a look at CrowdSec: Installation & Example Scenario

    CrowdSec is a solution that aims to help protect your Linux servers, and its approach is quite different than other solutions. CrowdSec is able to utilize reputation to make intelligent decisions, and is able to be extended to meet your needs. In this video, I take a first look at CrowdSec – I’ll show you the installation process and also an example scenario so you can see it in action.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 1 – Getting Started

    Welcome to my brand-new Proxmox course! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, I’ll give you an overview of what you can expect from the course.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 2 – Installation Process

    Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, we’ll install Proxmox Virtual Environment on our server.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 3 – Web Console Overview

    Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, I’ll give you an overview of the web console.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 4 – Containers vs Virtual Machines

    Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, we’ll compare containers against virtual machines.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 5 – Launching a Virtual Machine

    Welcome to my brand-new course on Proxmox Virtual Environment! In this 16-episode series, I’ll teach you everything you need to know in order to get up and running with Proxmox. In this class, we’ll launch our first virtual machine. In addition, we’ll install an operating system in the VM as well as set up the QEMU agent.

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  • Linux Distro Review: Crunchbang++ 11

    Crunchbang++ 11 was recently released, and it’s awesome! So, why aren’t more people aware of this really good Linux distro? Crunchbang++ is lightweight, fun to use, and well designed. In this video, I install the latest version and check it out.

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  • Enterprise Linux Security – Episode 02: Attack Vectors

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  • LIVE Distro Review: Manjaro 21.1 “Pahvo” (GNOME Edition)

    Manjaro recently released version 21.1 of the popular Arch-based distribution, and in this video the community and I will review the GNOME edition together, Live! Viewers will be able to help me test it out and it’s going to be a TON of fun.

    Note: Due to technical difficulties at the beginning, the actual review starts at 06:09.

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  • Linux Crash Course – The sed Command

    In this episode of Linux Essentials, we explore the sed command. sed, aka the “stream editor” is an underused command, and that’s a shame because it’s extremely useful for manipulating text. In this video, I’ll show you the basics of the sed command.

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