Cloudflare DNS + Dockerized NGINX on AWS

🌐 Cloudflare DNS + Dockerized NGINX on AWSLaunching a website isn't enough — it should be automated, secure, and built like infrastructure. This project uses Dockerized NGINX on an AWS EC2 instance, paired with Cloudflare DNS and an API-driven TLS workflow to serve https://haelectricinc.com reliably and securely. 🧰 What It...

Fail2Ban Daily SSH Report Script

  🔐 Fail2Ban Daily Report Script Security isn’t just about blocking attacks — it’s about knowing they happened. This lightweight Bash script integrates with Fail2Ban to generate daily email reports on SSH intrusion attempts, giving you clear, actionable visibility without logging into the server. 🧰 What It Does Pulls the...

DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

🚀 DevOps CI/CD Pipeline for Python App Deployment I built a robust CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment of a Dockerized Python application using GitHub Actions and Docker Compose. The setup ensures that every code update is automatically built, pushed to Docker Hub, and deployed to a remote server. ⚙️...

Docker Full-Stack

🚀 My Full-Stack Monitoring and Web Environment I built a secure, containerized setup with Docker, Traefik, and Cloudflare — all running on my home server with public subdomain access. ⚙️ Tech Stack: Docker Compose: Service orchestration Traefik: Reverse proxy with TLS (Cloudflare DNS challenge) Pi-hole: Network-wide ad blocking Prometheus +...

Unauthorized SSH Attempts Script

🔐 Tracking Unauthorized SSH Attempts with a Bash Script Securing a Linux server isn’t just about firewalls — it’s about knowing who’s trying to break in. I wrote a lightweight Bash script called badssh.sh to track SSH intrusion attempts on port 22. 🧰 What It Does: Scans UFW logs for...

Server Status Script

📬 Automating Linux Health Reports To keep my home lab running smoothly, I built a simple Bash script called stats.sh that emails me daily server health reports. This way, I stay updated on performance and security without logging in manually. 🛠️ What It Does Monitors system health: CPU, memory, disk...

Homelab

  🏡 DevOps Home Lab As a retired NYPD Sergeant and U.S. Army Veteran transitioning into DevOps, I built this self-hosted, production-grade home lab to mirror real-world infrastructure. It’s designed for learning, testing, automation, and hardening — with security and observability at its core. ⚙️ Hardware Setup Device Purpose Desktop...

My Path to DevOps

🚀 From NYPD Sergeant to DevOps Engineer My Self-Taught Journey into Cloud & Infrastructure Automation After retiring from the NYPD and serving in the U.S. Army, I set out to build my next chapter — not in uniform, but in the terminal. What began as simple curiosity about Linux quickly...