Notes on setting up home lab

KVM backed up by Ceph storage

• Planning and preparing servers
• Installing Ceph (Reef)
• Installing KVM, customized monitoring scripts
• Orchestrating Ceph RBD backed VMs on KVM hosts.
• Notes on  CLI commands

Mail server

• Setting up mail server – Pre-requisites
• Configuring Postfix with SpamAssassin
• Adding ClamAV (Antivirus) to existing Postfix setup

Other installations

• NFS Server / MariaDB Cluster with HA. / NIC Bonding / DNSMasq / OpenLDAP

Openstack installation – Single node home lab.

• Openstack Xena on Ubuntu 20.04
• Openstack Train on Ubuntu 18.04 

KVM

• Installing KVM
• Orchestrating VMs – Using simple shell scripts.

OS

• Ubuntu 20.04: Disable snapd, netplan, motd, and enable legacy networking service post-installation.
  • On a bare-metal server.
  • As a guest VM hosted on the KVM server.
  • Preparing custom Ubuntu 20.04 cloud image (QCOW and VMDK).
  • Setup / Configure Ubuntu repository mirror server

• Debian Bullseye
  •  On a bare-metal server.
  • Compile Linux Kernel.
  • As a guest VM on the KVM server.
  • Preparing custom Debian 11 cloud image.