Brandon

shit; architecture too ;)

Thanks for the feedback. To add to this I am looking more for on site training providers. The general realm is blue team related. Nothing specific just looking for ideas in the Cloud, SIEM, Containers, Architecture space.

What are some good alternatives to SANS training? The 7k price tag is a bit hard to swallow.

Switching over to kvm for my lab hypervisor has been interesting so far. Def a lot more typing then I expected. Other than that so far so good though.

echo 'db = db.getSiblingDB("{{ database }}"), db.createUser({ user: "{{ admin_user }}", pwd: "{{ admin_passwd }}", roles: [{ role: "root", db: "{{ database }}" }] });' | mongo

Turns out, the thing I was missing was setting the db to a specific value. The db = db.getSiblingDB("{{ database }}") bit was the part I had been missing to make it work properly. The getSiblingDB() method is akin to using "use database" from within the mongo shell.

I spent way too much time working out user creation from the cli with mongo. I eventually figured it out though. The main problem was users being created in the "test" db as part of the automation. I read several blogs and articles trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

As I was upgrading my lab and rolling out salt with python3 support, I was running into an issue where the old mongo formula worked with py2 but not py3. I decided it would be better to drop the requirement for the salt mongodb module and just use the cli

600GB 15k drives showed up today so once installed, it should be GTG for a couple of years. Cost for server, rail kit, and xtra HDDs is about $750 total.