To increase hardware resources for our learning lab deployed in previous post, we would stop the instance and modify the type. For my learning lab, suppose I’d need 2 vCPU, ~12GB RAM and about 20 or 30GB HDD. So let’s compare costs for various combinations available to us. Read [link] for more on various machine […]
I need to prepare for a big datacenter build project that’s coming up based on newer networking technologies. As I don’t have access to my home lab presently due to COVID-19 lock-down so I’ve decided to build one on GCP. I posted a related post few years ago – read [here]. Cost Looking at cloud […]
I’ve been meaning to play with docker, containers in general, for quite sometime. As a result, I’ve set this website to run inside a docker container. Brief of what it entails below – Steps Register an account with Google cloud – GCP Deploy a pico size compute node (or whatever comes under free offer) Select […]
My primary goal is to create an inexpensive lab environment which can run on my desktop. Objectives Create an enterprise like network structure – Simulate L3VPN clouds, internet cloud, some IPSec VPN tunnels DC-DR running some server workloads, few service VMs A remote branch office network Use this infrastructure to practice new technologies Use the […]
