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Lab management and documentation

Lab management and documentation

From the course: Building a Home IT Lab

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Lab management and documentation

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- [Instructor] With a small lab, it can be fairly easy to build and rebuild the environment that you need. Or it may be the case that your lab is intended to run for a long time without reconfiguration. But if you need to quickly and frequently reset the state of your lab with specific configurations, you might want to look into provisioning and configuration management software to define and manage your systems. Software like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef can help to define and maintain the state of physical and virtual systems. Software like OpenStack can help you to manage your own virtual infrastructure as a service environment. And software like Kubernetes can manage containers to satisfy the needs of your environment. There are many courses on these topics on LinkedIn Learning. A lab is a great place to play around with configuration management in a protected environment, so you don't put the other devices on your home network at risk. Another important aspect of setting up a lab is…

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