🎉Welcome

Hi, and welcome to my GitBook. This is a space where I share what I'm learning across InfoSec, DevOps, and systems engineering - expect notes, deep dives, and occasional rants.

[reidanb@gitbook ~]$ whoami
reidanb

DevOps engineer at a large MSP based in Yorkshire. Currently working on infrastructure automation, deployment pipelines, and internal tooling. Most of my time is split between config management, scripting, and keeping environments tidy.

[reidanb@gitbook ~]$ dpkg -l | grep -E 'netsec|devops|go|c++|infra'
ii  golang           1.22.2     amd64     Go programming language
ii  g++              13.2       amd64     GNU C++ compiler
ii  docker-ce        25.0.3     amd64     Docker: container runtime
ii  terraform        1.8.0      amd64     HashiCorp Infrastructure as Code
ii  ansible          9.5.1      all       Config automation tool
ii  wireguard-tools  1.0.2023   amd64     VPN made modern
ii  kubectl          1.30.1     amd64     K8s CLI

[reidanb@gitbook ~]$ cat /home/reidanb/README.txt

This is a personal knowledge base covering InfoSec, systems engineering, and DevOps. It serves as a working journal - documenting lab builds, write-ups, network experiments, and the occasional opinion.

[reidanb@gitbook ~]$ less ~/social.txt

• 🧑‍💻 GitHub: reidanb

• 🔗 LinkedIn Profile

• 🔐 PGP Public Key Fingerprint: FA9F 71F8 394F 4A06 5D96 DF2C FBDB 7DF2 520B 993D

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[reidanb@gitbook ~]$ cat ~/focus.txt

Current Areass of Focus:

• Building practical VLAN/DNS isolation labs

• Playing with Go and C++ for automation tooling

• Applying zero-trust models to small-scale environments

• Integrating SD-WAN concepts into DevOps pipelines