da_667@da_667@infosec.exchange
I mentioned in my profile and on my introduction that a wrote a book -- Building Virtual Machine Labs. Then a few years later, I wrote a second edition that is considerably more comprehensive.
I self-published via amazon's KDP, and via the online platform, leanpub. The dead tree format on amazon comes in two parts, because my book is over 1,000 pages of content. Its a bit pricey, but trust me, I'm not making much of a profit margin.
The digital edition on leanpub on the other hand? I made it pay what you want. You have no money? You wanna try it before you buy it? You were planning on pirating it? Thats all fine. I would rather you get the content from a reliable provider than try and download it from a sketchy site.
My book covers the basics virtualization
-Hosted vs. Baremetal hypervisors
-Virtual network segment types
-Virtual switching
-Hardware resource requirements and resource balancing
-Acquiring hardware
-Choosing (one of a choice of five) your hypervisor
-Configuring a baseline lab environment on one of those five hypervisor
-Configuring core network services (DHCP, DNS, NTP, Squid Proxy) and network firewall policy for your lab environment
-Routing and remote access for hosted and/or baremetal lab environments
-Installing and configuring Snort3 or Suricata
-Installing Splunk Enterprise
-Ideas on how to expand your lab beyond the baseline we build in the book together
-Extra content (password manager recommendations, etc.)
This thing is fully illustrated, and is 90% of the reason the book is so huge, because I wanted to accommodate visual learners. Buy or don't, but maybe share it with your friends trying to hope into IT/Infosec, and looking for homelab advice.
Digital (PDF) edition (free/pay-what-you-want):
leanpub.com/avatar2
Black and white print:
vol I: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09GXHNJFC
vol II: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Virtual-Machine-Labs-Hands/dp/B09GXPMY9M
Color:
vol I: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Virtual-Machine-Labs-Hands/dp/B09GXD7QL8
vol II: https://www.amazon.com/Building-Virtual-Machine-Labs-Hands/dp/B09GZJPYFX