👋 Hi There!

I'm Brian Brookman, an IT engineer located in Southern California who specializes in Networking, Cloud, and Kubernetes. I help people build and operate scalable, resilient IT infrastructures.

Most of my publicly available work can either be found on GitHub or on this site. I’m also active in a number of online communities.

When I’m AFK, I enjoy being bad at My Hobbies and spending time with my girlfriend and our cats.

To find and connect with me elsewhere on the interwebz, see My Profiles.

🏡 About this site

This site is my corner of the web. It's my Digital Garden where I publish posts and notes (in all their stages) on all the various things I work on, learn about, or find myself interested in.

🌿 Posts

Articles, essays, and everything in between.

• Updating Container Images the Flux GitOps way
• Exploring Kubernetes Service Networking
• What Even is a Link State Anyways
• Trying out Harvester HCI in my Homelab
• Routed Ports, Switched Ports, and SVIs
• Python's Pass-by-Object-Reference Paradigm

For more, see All Published Posts.

🌱 Notes

Zettelkasten-style notes to help me understand things.

• F5 GTM Wide-IP Pool Failover for topology load-balancing
• Min-maxing IRL
• Continuous Deployment should include automated production testing and rollbacks
• Whitespace stripping behavior in Terraform template directives
• Compressors shouldn't be used with an edge of break-up tone
• NLB targets can't connect to themselves through the NLB
• Running Kubernetes Resource Recommender (KRR) in a container
• Loose coupling helps to reduce toil

You can discover more by following links in notes or using search.