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Projects & workshops

Hands-on labs, open-source workshops, and projects in infrastructure and AI agent security.

The platform we're building

Jake's Tech Labs

Get your hands on the things you're learning.

A growing home for hands-on IT labs. Build a domain, configure a network, or get comfortable in Linux, with guided steps and explanations along the way.

Explore the labs

Jake's Tech Labs Active Directory lesson with an eleven-step sidebar and instructions for organizing a domain — Inside the platform
Work through real scenarios, one step at a time. This lesson builds an Active Directory structure around a bank's branch locations.

From my GitHub

Workshops, demos & side projects

Original workshop diagram showing a credential broker between an AI agent and external APIs

From the workshop slides

PlatformCon · Agent Vault

Credential Brokering Workshop

A hands-on workshop on giving AI agents access to services through a credential-brokering proxy.

Kubernetes + Infisical

Infisical · Kubernetes

Kubernetes + External Secrets

A demo connecting Kubernetes workloads with secrets managed in Infisical.

Built with React + Flask

Personal project

Plant Watering App

A React and Flask app for keeping track of plants and weather-aware watering.

Infisical + GitHub Actions

CI/CD demo

GitHub Actions + Infisical

Bringing secrets management into a GitHub Actions workflow with Infisical.

Jake's Active Directory domain controller video thumbnail

From my Active Directory walkthrough

Windows Server lab

Active Directory Domain Controller

A lab for setting up a domain controller and getting hands-on with Active Directory.

Agent infrastructure

Hermes + Agent Vault

Exploring a VPS setup for Hermes with Agent Vault handling credential brokering.

Watch on YouTube

Tutorials & learning in public

Full video library

9:18

Cloud & DevOps

Learning Kubernetes From Scratch - My Real Experience So Far

10:20

IT fundamentals

How to Create a Domain Controller in Windows Server (Full Setup Tutorial)

18:41

AI & agents