Devember, automate all the things!

A developer using Anthropic's Claude Code completed infrastructure work in a single day that had previously stalled on OpenTofu, including fixing Terraform, deploying Ansible, applying and testing CIS benchmarks, and beginning HAProxy configuration, while running a 27B model for debugging alongside the wiki and forums. The author, working in tandem with Opus, said Claude did "all the heavy lifting" while they supervised and reviewed the generated YAML and HCL, and described the experience as feeling "like cheating, and it is." The developer plans to publish a Terraform-focused update with the architecture and automated deployment of FCOS and AlmaLinux on Proxmox, noting much of the code was not written by hand.

This is incredibly unfair, and I would like to retract from receiving any prizes or recognition for what’s happening. In short: I got access to claude code and fixed everything i wanted within a day. Long form: I was struggling with opentofu, getting tokens to take, setting permissions for api keys correctly. Running against a 27B model for debugging and checking the wiki and forums helped, i was able to create the test VM, i bounced the ideas for k8s nodes around and then I thought to give claude code a go… Terraform, fixed in no time. Ansible? Deployed. HAProxy, currently doing that. CIS benchmarks applied and tested. Claude was able to do all the heavy lifting, i was able to supervise and check out the yaml and HCL to see how it thought to do it. I’m still working on it, still in tandem with Opus. I’ve learned a lot about the way to architect these tools better, the way to move forward with technical problems by watching and keeping a lessons learned tab. I’m not doing the actual coding or writing. That makes me sad in a way. Looking at the progress I’m making on actually doing something usefull with my infra and knowledge, making my rack behave the way I would like it too. It feels like cheating, and it is. I will provide a nice update on the terraform part first in the coming days. You’ll see a lot of code that i didn’t write, so in that sense it’s a little sad. But you’ll also see the architecture, the VM’s, the way to deploy FCOS and Almalinux on proxmox automagically. … update, soon