Join us as Cobus Bernard takes us on a live tour of his sprawling homelab - and explains why Claude wrote most of the Terraform and Ansible running it.

Cobus walks through a Proxmox setup running Traefik, Vault, Nomad, Keycloak, and a three-node Kubernetes cluster that doesn't quite work yet, all built by handing infrastructure-as-code tasks to Claude and slowly deciding how much of it to trust with real commands. You will learn how Cobus structures Terraform state and variables so an AI agent can safely extend it, why he still won't let Claude run terraform apply unsupervised, how MCP servers control what an agent is allowed to touch, and why confabulation might be a better word than hallucination for what these models actually do.

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome & Introduction

8:50 What's Running in the Home Lab - Proxmox, Traefik, and Vault

  • 13:48 A Kubernetes Cluster That Doesn't Work Yet
  • 17:09 MCP Servers and What Claude Is Allowed to Run
  • 21:46 Is It That Claude Wrote the Terraform?
  • 23:06 Trusting Claude with Terraform Apply
  • 27:43 The Home Assistant Confession - Copy-Paste vs. Actually Learning
  • 36:57 Naming Things - Solving the Classic Kubernetes Problem
  • 43:52 Confabulation - A Better Word for AI Hallucination
  • 48:49 Building a Tax Calculator App With Claude

How to find Cobus:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cobusbernard/

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