As I quest to break into DevOps / Developer job roles.
I’m desigining enterprise like environments in my homelab for practice.
So step one is to setup a simple local network and servers inside of VirtualBox.
System Setup:
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Ubuntu Server 21.10
- Ubuntu Desktop 21.10
- Rocky Linux 8.5
- Windows 10 Desktop
I will clone the desktop vm’s as needed.
The first goal of the project is to setup DNS, DHCP Server inside a host only network. I’ve disabled the DHCP function inside of virutal box so that when I’m ready to assign IP addresses to those machines. My Ubuntu server will handle assiging DHCP requets.
Again the goal is to simulate an enterprise environment as much as possible.
Since my homelab doesn’t have a dedicated router. I will use VirtualBox and VM’s to do so.
I chose to use VirtualBox instead of QEMU for the GUI.
The Ubuntu Server and Rocky Linux servers are “headless”
I will be using iproute tools to get them up and running on the host network.
Then I will install the packages needed to configure a DNS and DHCP server.
I will share a step by step on this process in seperate blog post.