Sean Patterson

DevOps Engineer

I'm a DevOps engineer currently on break attending Japanese language school. I use this site to document the infrastructure work I do on my home lab — KVM virtualization, Kubernetes, and whatever else I'm building.

Sean Patterson

Contributions

Projects

PortfolioMDX

Personal portfolio and blog

CreditBonusPython

App that chooses which credit card to use

Czarke.github.io
SpaceFarmRocketC

An animation of a rocket taking off made in opengl using C. Meant to act as a face for previous project, SpaceFarm.

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Deploying this site to Kubernetes

2026-04-07

Containerizing a Next.js app and setting up a full GitOps CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, GHCR, and ArgoCD — running alongside the existing AWS Amplify deployment.

GitOps, Cilium, and proper HTTPS on a bare metal cluster

2026-03-30

Setting up ArgoCD for GitOps, migrating from Flannel to Cilium, and wiring up Gateway API with cert-manager and Let's Encrypt for real HTTPS on a homelab Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes observability with Prometheus and Grafana

2026-03-25

Deploying the kube-prometheus-stack on a homelab Kubernetes cluster, exposing Grafana remotely over Tailscale, and a swap gotcha that took down the cluster after a reboot.