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AI/ML · Databases & Data · Security

Operate the RAG knowledge lifecycle: lineage, ACLs, PII, retention, deletion, and recovery

Build a governed RAG knowledge lifecycle for document updates and deletion, immutable lineage, tenant ACLs, PII minimization before embeddings, retention and legal hold, multi-index consistency, deletion verification, encrypted backup, isolated restore, derived-index rebuild, and rollback that never resurrects prohibited data.
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danger420 minadvanced12 stepsPostgreSQL

Databases & Data · AI/ML · Security

Run production semantic search with PostgreSQL and pgvector

Pin PostgreSQL 18 and pgvector 0.8.5, enforce tenant RLS, store one validated vector dimension, ingest idempotently, measure HNSW and IVFFlat against exact recall, and prove maintenance, PITR, restore and rollback.
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caution420 minadvanced10 stepsPostgreSQL

Services & Applications · Databases & Data · Security · Backup & Recovery

Deploy Nextcloud with PostgreSQL, Redis, TLS, Cron, backups, and verified restore

Deploy Nextcloud 34.0.2 on Ubuntu 24.04 with protected PostgreSQL and Redis, canonical Nginx TLS, observable Cron, complete backups, and an isolated application-level restore drill.
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danger360 minadvanced14 stepsNextcloud Server

Cloud & Infrastructure · Storage & Filesystems · Networking & DNS · Backup & Recovery

Deploy a production-ready Proxmox VE host with storage, networking, backups, and recovery

Install verified Proxmox VE 9.2 on supported bare metal, validate ZFS and VLAN bridges, harden management, update safely, protect guests with PBS, and prove guest plus bare-metal recovery.
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danger300 minadvanced12 stepsProxmox VE

Storage & Filesystems · System Administration · Security

Build secure Windows Server 2025 file shares with NTFS, SMB encryption, and quotas

Combine group-based share and NTFS permissions, SMB 3.1.1 encryption/signing, Kerberos, ABE, FSRM hard quotas, and a verified metadata-preserving restore.
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danger180 minadvanced10 stepsWindows Server

Cloud & Infrastructure · System Administration · Storage & Filesystems

Deploy Hyper-V VMs, virtual switches, and safe checkpoints on Windows Server 2025

Build a Generation 2 Hyper-V VM behind a reviewed external switch, enforce ProductionOnly checkpoint lifecycle, and prove independent application-consistent restore.
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danger210 minadvanced10 stepsWindows Server

AI/ML · System Administration · Security · Observability & Monitoring

Build a private self-hosted bot with Ollama

Deploy an authenticated loopback service that uses Ollama through its OpenAI-compatible API, exposes only three compiled read-only host probes, records content-free audit evidence, runs under a hardened systemd account, and supports controlled backup, upgrade, rollback, and removal.
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caution210 minadvanced11 stepsOllama

Databases & Data · Security · Backup & Recovery

Secure SQL Server with TLS, least privilege, and verified backup restore

Configure SQL Server 2025 CU7 on Ubuntu 24.04 for strict validated TLS, replace broad application rights, create an encrypted checksum backup with off-host key escrow, and prove it through real restore and CHECKDB.
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danger270 minadvanced16 stepsSQL Server

System Administration · Identity & Access · Security · High Availability & Reliability

Build a new Windows Server 2025 Active Directory forest

Plan, promote, harden, validate, and back up a new two-controller Windows Server 2025 forest without exposing credentials or treating a VM snapshot as directory recovery.
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danger360 minadvanced11 stepsWindows Server

System Administration · Networking & DNS · High Availability & Reliability · Cloud & Infrastructure

Deploy Windows Server 2025 DHCP scopes, reservations, and failover

Build an authorized two-server DHCPv4 service with reviewed IPAM, inactive-first scope creation, internal DNS options, shared secure updates, reservations, load-balanced failover, relay and maintenance tests, and isolated recovery.
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danger360 minadvanced11 stepsWindows Server

Databases & Data · Security · Storage & Filesystems

Install and secure Redis with ACLs, TLS, persistence and verified backups

Deploy Redis Open Source 8.8 on Ubuntu 24.04 with correct product and licensing terminology, TLS-only private access, named least-privilege ACL users, AOF/RDB durability and a checksum-backed isolated restore drill.
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caution210 minadvanced11 stepsRedis Open Source

Databases & Data · Backup & Recovery

Recover PostgreSQL to a point in time with WAL archiving

Build a fail-closed PostgreSQL 18.4 WAL archive and verified base-backup chain, then restore to an exact target in isolation, validate while paused, promote, and re-establish protection.
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danger420 minadvanced17 stepsPostgreSQL

Databases & Data · Security · High Availability & Reliability

Install and secure MongoDB with authentication, TLS and backups

Deploy a three-member MongoDB Community Server 8.2 replica set on Ubuntu 24.04 with TLS/X.509 member identity, SCRAM least privilege, majority-aware clients and a full mongodump/oplog isolated restore drill.
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danger300 minadvanced11 stepsMongoDB Community Server

Observability & Monitoring · Services & Applications · Security

Build centralized logging with Grafana Loki and Grafana Alloy

Deploy Loki 3.7 with Alloy 1.18, authenticated tenant isolation, bounded labels, pre-export redaction, object-store durability, compactor retention and an isolated recovery drill.
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danger300 minadvanced11 stepsGrafana Loki

Containers & Kubernetes · Storage & Filesystems · Backup & Recovery

Back up and restore Kubernetes with Velero

Design RPO and RTO, pin Velero 1.18, choose one volume-protection path per PVC, secure independent object storage, create scheduled recovery points, restore into isolation, verify bytes and application behavior, and operate drills without confusing backup completion with recoverability.
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caution300 minadvanced13 stepsKubernetes

Networking & DNS · Storage & Filesystems · Security

Build an Amazon S3 backup target with encryption, versioning and lifecycle

Design, deploy and prove an Amazon S3 backup target with explicit object ownership, public-access blocking, SSE-KMS, version history, lifecycle controls, least-privilege roles, optional immutable retention and independent restore evidence.
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caution150 minadvanced12 stepsAWS CLI

AI/ML · System Administration · Security · DevOps & CI/CD

Deploy Ollama and Open WebUI securely

Run authenticated local AI behind TLS with private Ollama networking, persistent storage, controlled models, staged updates and tested backup/restore.
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caution240 minadvanced15 stepsUbuntu Server

Containers & Kubernetes · DevOps & CI/CD · Security

Build a production-ready application stack with Docker Compose

Package a small web service with a non-root image, healthchecks, an internal data network, persistent storage, reproducible configuration, backup, update, and rollback.
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caution60 minintermediate11 stepsDocker Engine

Backup & Recovery · Services & Applications

Back up and restore Dovecot mailboxes and metadata

Inventory storage and identity backends, create application-consistent copies, protect indexes and Sieve data, encrypt offsite, restore one user, and verify IMAP state.
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caution90 minadvanced8 stepsDovecot CE

Databases & Data · Backup & Recovery

Back up and restore MariaDB with mariadb-dump

Create a consistent logical backup with routines, events, triggers, metadata, compression, encryption, checksums, retention, and an isolated restore test.
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caution75 minadvanced8 stepsMariaDB

Databases & Data

Back up, restore, and test a MySQL database

Create a consistent logical backup, restore it into isolation, verify representative data, and retain evidence.
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caution45 minintermediate9 stepsMySQL Community Server

Databases & Data · Security

Install and secure MySQL on Ubuntu

Install MySQL, remove unsafe defaults, create a least-privilege application database, optionally allow restricted TLS network access, and prove backup readiness.
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caution45 minintermediate12 stepsUbuntu Server

Databases & Data · Backup & Recovery

Back up and restore MySQL 8.4 with a logical dump

Define recovery objectives, create a least-privilege backup identity, capture schemas and objects consistently, encrypt offsite, and run an isolated restore test.
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caution80 minadvanced8 stepsMySQL

Databases & Data

Back up, restore, and test a PostgreSQL database

Produce a custom-format pg_dump, restore into isolation, compare invariants, and retain recovery evidence.
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caution40 minintermediate9 stepsPostgreSQL

System Administration · Security

Create remote, versioned backups with rsync and SSH

Use a dedicated SSH identity, dry-run transfers, build hard-linked snapshots, enforce retention, and test restore.
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caution55 minadvanced8 stepsrsync