Enterprise-Grade Home Lab
A professional learning environment simulating real-world enterprise IT infrastructure, including virtualization, identity services, perimeter security, and centralized observability.
Documentation set restored and expanded. Use the links below for detailed infrastructure and operations pages.
Key Technologies
- Proxmox for VM lifecycle and infrastructure segmentation
- Windows Server 2022 Active Directory for identity and policy management
- RHEL 9 workloads for Linux administration and service hosting
- pfSense firewall for routing, segmentation, and perimeter controls
- Apache and Nginx for internal and external web service scenarios
- Suricata and Snort for IDS/IPS-focused traffic inspection
- Zabbix, Wazuh, and Graylog for monitoring, detection, and centralized logging
Operational Scope
- Active Directory user/group lifecycle simulation
- Network design, VLAN concepts, and firewall rule testing
- Linux and Windows server hardening workflows
- Security event visibility and log analysis pipelines
- Cloud integration readiness for Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity patterns
Documentation Goals
- Demonstrate enterprise-style architecture decisions in a personal lab context
- Capture repeatable build and validation steps for interview walkthroughs
- Maintain a living portfolio of infrastructure, security, and automation practice
Primary source assets are maintained alongside your project repositories and referenced by this site.
Documentation Governance
- Update change records for all impactful topology, security, or identity modifications.
- Re-run validation after documentation edits and major lab changes.
- Keep inventory and runbooks synchronized with deployed infrastructure state.
- Store supporting scripts and artifacts in source-controlled repositories.