Brandon Patterson

Brandon Patterson

DevOps Engineer · Jasper AI

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What Shipping My Personal Site Actually Taught Me

When I looked back through my recent GitHub activity, I expected to find a clean story. Something like: I redesigned my …

Deep Dive: How I Run Kubernetes in My Homelab

I’ve been running a K3s cluster in my homelab for a few months now. What started as “let me learn Kubernetes …

How I Monitor Everything in My Homelab

I can tell you the CPU temperature of my Proxmox nodes, how many packets my VyOS router dropped in the last hour, …

Learn Kubernetes by Breaking Things (On My Cluster)

I built a free Kubernetes playground that gives you a real cluster, a browser terminal, and five tasks that take you …

AI Didn't Fix My Broken Platform — We Did

My Kubernetes learning platform was silently broken for 24 hours. Every signup went into a black hole. No errors …

Hardening K8s Learn: Security, Monitoring, and Ditching KSOPS

The K8s Learn platform launched a few days ago and immediately exposed a handful of problems — the kind you only find …