Alliance Fleet

Projects

Technical work from the Alliance Fleet, documented as evidence for the Cloud and IAM engineering path. Each project maps directly to a skill domain in the Alignment Matrix.

Act II writeup
VFIO Forensic Postmortem
Silent hard lockup, zero local logs. Crash timeline reconstructed using external InfluxDB telemetry at 10-second resolution. Root cause: PCIe ASPM power state transition under VFIO.
ProxmoxVFIOInfluxDBIncident Response
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Act II project
Fleet Defense Stack
Wazuh SIEM across 10+ agents, n8n enrichment with AbuseIPDB threat intelligence, automated UniFi IP blocking, Discord alerting with MITRE ATT&CK tagging.
Wazuhn8nSecurityDiscord
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Act II project
Hybrid Identity Lab
On-prem AD forest (alliance.lab) synchronized to Entra ID via Password Hash Sync. GPO cascade testing, domain-joined workstation, hands-on SC-300 prep.
Active DirectoryEntra IDSC-300IAM
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Act II project
BD-1: Claude-Powered Discord Bot
Custom Discord bot powered by Anthropic Claude API with a $10/month budget cap enforced in code. Git-synced knowledge base, Haiku/Sonnet model routing, PM2 process management under a dedicated user. Archived to bd1-archive after 996 PM2 restarts; succeeded by Jocasta.
Node.jsClaude APIDiscordPM2Git
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Act III project
Jocasta: Hermes Agent Platform
BD-1's successor on the Hermes Agent framework. Local-first inference (qwen3:14b) with Claude Haiku/Sonnet elevation under a $5/day hard cap, 76 loadable skills including a full Azure cert study track, and a Git-synced Fleet Codex knowledge base.
HermesOllamaClaude APIDiscordAI Agents
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Act II project
Local AI Stack
RTX 4000 Ada passed through via VFIO to a dedicated VM. Ollama at 50+ tokens per second. OpenWebUI, AnythingLLM RAG with 2,385 embedded document vectors, ComfyUI. Zero data egress.
OllamaVFIORTX 4000 AdaRAGOpenWebUI
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Act II project
Authentik SSO Platform
Centralized identity for 15+ services via OIDC, SAML, and Forward Auth. MFA enforced at the flow level, not per-app. Single audit trail forwarded to Wazuh. One login gates everything.
AuthentikOIDCSAMLMFAIAM
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Act II project
Azure Offsite Backup Pipeline
Nightly Proxmox-to-Azure Blob backup via azcopy on the Corvette node. SAS-scoped credentials, 3AM cron, full vzdump set pushed daily. The first piece of the homelab to cross the boundary into Azure.
AzureBlob StorageazcopyBackupAZ-104
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Act II project
n8n Infrastructure Automation
20+ active workflows following a Detect/Enrich/Decide/Act/Report pattern. Connects SIEM, identity, network, AI inference, and Discord into one operational layer.
n8nWebhooksDiscordPostgreSQL
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Act II project
TIG Stack Observability
Telegraf shipping 10-second metrics to InfluxDB from every host. Grafana dashboards for fleet health and GPU telemetry. The monitoring layer that made the VFIO postmortem possible.
TelegrafInfluxDBGrafanaFlux
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Act III project
Alliance Fleet Codex
Docs-as-code for the fleet: BookStack authoring (18 shelves, 10 ADRs), nightly n8n export to Gitea, 4am sync into Jocasta's knowledge base. NetBox as IPAM authority. Authentik OIDC across the stack.
BookStackNetBoxGitean8nOIDC
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