AI Infrastructure Isn’t Magic — It’s the Same Problems You Already Know, Stacked Differently

Understanding how self-hosted AI is built is the fastest way to understand what ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are actually doing with your data — and where your discipline’s failure mode lives.

February 27, 2026 · 11 min · Oob Skulden™

15 Vulnerabilities in a Grafana Monitoring Stack (And How We Found Them)

A full vulnerability assessment of a Grafana/Prometheus monitoring stack across two VLANs. 98 commands, 15 confirmed vulnerabilities, and the investigative chain that led to each finding -- including the dead ends.

February 7, 2026 · 36 min · Oob Skulden™

Authentik + Grafana: OAuth SSO Across VLANs and the 11 Things That Broke

A complete walkthrough of deploying Authentik as an OIDC provider for Grafana and Prometheus across a multi-VLAN lab, including every issue encountered, the diagnostic reasoning behind each fix, and the security trade-offs made along the way.

February 4, 2026 · 26 min · Oob Skulden™