Software & DevOps

Rebuild a home lab as code

Over one weekend, a hobbyist used Claude to redesign their whole home lab so every setting is stored as code.

Steps

  1. Take stock of your setup.
  2. Convert one service at a time.
  3. Keep backups.

Prompt you can copy

Here's my home server setup: [list]. Help me turn it into infrastructure-as-code with OpenTofu, step by step.

Tools

  • Claude

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