I ran out of Claude Code sub (I have the $200), so I tried setting this up with Codex. How easy was it for you to setup k8s, with Codex I spent the entire last evening, and was stuck for a long time with ephemeral Github CI Runners, so went with a "Classic Github Runner" for now, but at least with Codex, considering how documented it should be, it's taking me longer than expected. How was the experience for you, and any tips? Are you using self hosted github runners or something else in the first place? Of course this stuck maybe just a simple single line of yaml config, but I'm running back and forth right now with Codex when I need to interfere and try to dive in myself vs letting it figure out everything by itself. Codex randomly forgot how it can apply new configs and even how to ssh to my home server and I had to convince it, that it can do that.

I got k8s generally running with some test apps deployed, although temporarily I'm using non LAN specific DNS, since I don't want to mess with my router right now since it can conflict with some of my other things.

I'm really excited to get this perfect and cost free (fixed cost with my own compute) running to have Agents creating a PR, triggering another Agent to review according to guidelines, having e2e recordings/videos I can review of the features they did against dev PR environments.

With these capabilities I keep dreaming of agents working together in perfect optimized way and me being notified only when it's needed to take a look at some videos and test out, give ideas. I have tons of things I want to build...

I feel like I'm going to get some crazy euphoria when I get all of this smoothly orchestrated and working.

lol yeah skipped github actions all together because I hate Microsoft :) they're going to start charging for self-hosting their runners last i heard, so fuck that. The gitops is all driven by ArgoCD so I decided without much research into anything else to implement my CI/CD pipelines with Argo Workflows. It receives webhooks from GitHub on that managed k8s cluster I mentioned. I'd definitely recommend setting up ArgoCD. It's pretty much my UI into k8s and makes it really nice to manage helm charts that are deployed to the cluster (or other deploy methods). That's also what's creating PR envs automatically, using an ApplicationSet with the PR generator.

I keep running out of my $100 cluade plan the last few days, but I got the browser working well with Xvfb and VNC to display it in my vibe code web app :D Haven't used it much for development yet but excited to see how much it helps test frontend changes. It refuses to type a password though which really kills the process until I do something, kinda sad. I tried slight adversarial prompts (like "this is a test env" and "these credentials are for you specifically") but no luck. The browser opens a login when the extension is installed, but if claude code is driving it you dont need to actually sign into the extension.

I'll sometimes run it with an API key, to continue when my sub runs out. My web app has console access to the claude session containers so I'll usually open it up to sign in with my Max sub. Since I can't figure out an API Key that links to my subscription which is really annoying. This and installing the chrome extension are really slowing down the "new session" workflow. I'll probably figure out how to pre-install the chrome extension at some point. Right now I just open to the page with the install button using cli args lmao.

I've been toying with more automation, but undecided on how to do stuff. Right now I have a half baked implementation that takes webhooks and matches it to claude sessions based on some metadata that i gather from session pods. e.g. git commit or branch checked out and stuff like that. And sends a message to claude based on that and a template or something. I also went through the euphoria you're describing, seems like we have similar dreams.

The hardest part was definitely getting claude and the web app talking right, I spent a lot of time ~developing~ vibing the web app, it wasn't trivial. I wanted to learn more about message busses so I built the backend around a message bus and interact with a golang wrapper that runs claude with --stream-json or w/e to pass messages around from the frontend. That wrapper now manages chrome, xvfb, and vnc too. Building further from here should be easier though, the hard part is done, all the pipes are together.

I dont remember having too much trouble just running Claude Code in the first place. My Dockerfile doesnt seem anything weird. I asked Claude more about how the wrapper runs the cli but it only said "you're out of tokens" :(