Lab42  ·  Italy  ·  Independent  ·  Since 1996

Infrastructure.
AI.
Media.

Independent research & consulting from Italy. We automate infrastructure, build with AI, and talk about both — since before it was cool.

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1996 Independent since
3 Business units
2 Podcasts, IT & EN
0 Vendor lock-ins

What we do

Three units, one lab.

01

Infrastructure
& DevOps

Puppet consulting, DevOps, cloud automation, training. We built and maintain the example42 open-source projects. Been at this since before it was called Infrastructure as Code.

Puppet DevOps Cloud Training
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Applied
AI Interactions

We use AI tools, build with them, and share what we learn. Active projects: Wlaudio (web interface for Claude Code) and Pabawi (unified infrastructure management). We consult on Claude Code and Kiro adoption.

Claude Code Wlaudio Pabawi
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Podcasts and
Websites

La Brigata dei Geek Estinti in Italian — tech, culture, and the industry. Abnormal DevOps Iterations in English — interviews and real-world DevOps stories. Plus Abnormalia and Alvagante experimental websites. No scripts, no vendor pitches.

Podcast IT Podcast EN Experiments
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Output

Selected projects.

Open Source example42.com ↗ Puppet modules, tools, and community — two decades of open-source infrastructure code. AI × Infra Pabawi ↗ One interface for Puppet, Bolt, Ansible, Proxmox, and AWS. Built with AI from day one. AI Tooling Wlaudio → Web interface for Claude Code — same capabilities, no terminal, no setup friction. Podcast · IT La Brigata dei Geek Estinti ↗ Tech, culture, and the industry — in Italian, without filters. Experiment Abnormalia ↗ Experimental AI-generated narrative content — where the machines tell the stories. Directory Alvagante ↗ Curated links on AI, security, and tech — signal, hand-picked from the noise.

Get in touch

Infrastructure problem?
AI question? Let's talk.

Small team, senior people. Short advisory calls or long-term embedded work — no fixed packages, no vendor pitch.

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