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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Cohabitates with K-2SO on Stinger Mantis (VM 203). Archiving to bd1-archive as Jocasta rebuild begins.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Act II project Aug 2026
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.
Act II project Aug 2026
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.
Act III project In Progress
Alliance Fleet Codex
Four-tool documentation system: NetBox for inventory, BookStack for runbooks, Gitea for operational artifacts, Homepage as the single pane of glass. Documenting the fleet like it is production.