// chris johnsonField notes on cybersecurity, AI-assisted development, infrastructure, and the craft of shipping things that actually work.
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The climax of the Wazuh homelab series. deploy-wazuh.yml meets reality, eight bugs cascade across two evenings, the UDM Pro starts forwarding live syslog, three agents enroll across Linux, Pi, and Apple Silicon, and the captain pattern that orchestrated all of it gets an honest retrospective.
Why a security engineer running a small home network picked Wazuh over Splunk, Elastic, and Graylog, what hardware caught the job, and the 29-task implementation plan that went through 5 patches before a single playbook ran against the target server.