Claude Code as a Server Admin: From Migration to Daily Operations

Earlier this year I migrated my home server from Gentoo + Docker to Fedora Server 43 + MicroShift. Eight services: a full mail stack (Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, ClamAV), Nextcloud with Collabora Online, Vaultwarden, Paperless-NGX, Pihole, monitoring via Grafana Cloud — all on a single VPS, managed via GitOps with Flux CD.

Claude Code was my primary tool throughout. Not as a code generator I reviewed at arm’s length, but as something closer to a co-admin that I paired with in real time. This post is an honest look at what that actually looks like, with concrete examples.

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