Setting up your own 'Lab' - Suggestions
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CloudatCost gives quite a few options on creating a lab system without having to purchase and power equipment.
For someone starting out in the IT realm; what plan(s) and what systems / tasks would you suggest?
Working with a Dev 1 and CentOS give some good starting points on learning SSH and command line control.
What else can be done - and what are you doing (aside from the thread on C@C Projects).
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You could build your own VOIP phone system.
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Who is this for? From what I've heard you are joining a company next week that provides pretty extensive lab facilities for staff. No need to maintain personal ones anymore
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@scottalanmiller said:
Who is this for? From what I've heard you are joining a company next week that provides pretty extensive lab facilities for staff. No need to maintain personal ones anymore
Ah but, there's still the fun of personal ones.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Who is this for? From what I've heard you are joining a company next week that provides pretty extensive lab facilities for staff. No need to maintain personal ones anymore
Yes, in just a few short days I will be able to access the lab, but I am curious outside that scope... Nor does it hurt to have another sand box to play in.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Who is this for? From what I've heard you are joining a company next week that provides pretty extensive lab facilities for staff. No need to maintain personal ones anymore
Ah but, there's still the fun of personal ones.
Yes, and if he ever leaves said company, he can keep his personal lab.
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I need to keep this in mind since I'm starting mine. Pointers are always helpful in where to start.
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What really determines what makes sense here is what the goals of your lab are. What do you want to learn with it?
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Lots of things to do with your own lab. Run Active Directory for home, have your own ownCloud server, do VPN and have traditional storage on it, run a web server, instant messaging server, email server, remote desktop, PBX...
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Who is this for? From what I've heard you are joining a company next week that provides pretty extensive lab facilities for staff. No need to maintain personal ones anymore
Ah but, there's still the fun of personal ones.
Yes, and if he ever leaves said company, he can keep his personal lab.
I'm very much hoping that I can stay at said company a very long time... at my age, it gets to be a bit more difficult every year to look forward. Getting into a team that not only can work together but also get alonG is really important.
One of the goals with said company - is to not just fit in,.. but become part of the family...
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@thanksajdotcom said:
Yes, and if he ever leaves said company, he can keep his personal lab.
orly!? That's awesome!
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@nadnerB
The other guise of having 'my own lab',... is not getting a call from the home office saying something got broke,...at 2am...on a Saturday....before Spring Break.Not To mention..There maybe a option to bring someone in on it and I don't have certain clearance as it's under my control..
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@scottalanmiller said:
What really determines what makes sense here is what the goals of your lab are. What do you want to learn with it?
I want mine for databases, software enhancement & design for websites....etc And what ever else I tickles my fancy.
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@nadnerB said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Yes, and if he ever leaves said company, he can keep his personal lab.
orly!? That's awesome!
I mean what he's setup on his own, not what he gets access to through work.
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@g.jacobse, that's what I dreamed too
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However, although I no longer work with all those people, they're still family
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@thanksajdotcom said:
@nadnerB said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
Yes, and if he ever leaves said company, he can keep his personal lab.
orly!? That's awesome!
I mean what he's setup on his own, not what he gets access to through work.
oh, righto. I'd see how everyone else had theirs set up and then set up a private non-work related one in a similar fashion
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@BMarie said:
I want mine for databases, software enhancement & design for websites....etc And what ever else I tickles my fancy.
The NTG lab has a Redis and MongoDB cluster. And not multiple instances on a single VM, which you can do in a pinch, but three dedicated VMs each running one instance of the DB so it is a real cluster with failover that can be tested.
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@g.jacobse said:
@nadnerB
The other guise of having 'my own lab',... is not getting a call from the home office saying something got broke,...at 2am...on a Saturday....before Spring Break.NTG doesn't page out for lab issues.
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@g.jacobse said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Who is this for? From what I've heard you are joining a company next week that provides pretty extensive lab facilities for staff. No need to maintain personal ones anymore
Ah but, there's still the fun of personal ones.
Yes, and if he ever leaves said company, he can keep his personal lab.
I'm very much hoping that I can stay at said company a very long time... at my age, it gets to be a bit more difficult every year to look forward. Getting into a team that not only can work together but also get alonG is really important.
One of the goals with said company - is to not just fit in,.. but become part of the family...
An advantage of the corporate lab is integration. Things like access are integrated already, no need to do that for each new machine. And there are cool things like log management that are in the lab, so you not only get to, say, bring up a MariaDB test machine but you get to have its logs shipped to an ELK instance too, and play with that without having to build one of those too.
