Percona gives us room to work on our own AI-assisted projects, and I used mine to fix a problem I kept running into. Every time I wanted to try a new database feature, debug something tricky, or reproduce a customer issue, I ended up rebuilding much of the same infrastructure: DNS, TLS, Docker networking, database topologies, users and test data. Over the years, I wrote scripts to automate this but I still found myself copying and pasting post-installation steps from one lab to the next.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://percona.community/blog/2026/09/16/vibe-coding-a-database-lab/