Hello
I've been wondering... when you have finished configuring your environment, what do you do to make it "alive" ? You have created virtual machines, configured webserver, mailserver, backup, authentication, automatisation, monitoring. Now, you can keep it and be proud - or just delete it and repeat configuration from scratch. I'd like to extend the first option - make my homelab infrastructure a living creation, where users perform tasks and 3rd party applications are doings jobs which brings standard sysadmin maintenance tasks (consume ressources, justifies virtual hardware changes, software upgrades, expanding architecture). The only thing is that my homelab isn't available on internet, and i wouldn't ask developers to work on it.
After creating few infrastructures, I've come to conclusion that any service can be installed with 3 pages online tutorial. Then i can produce some management scripts, add few crontabs, prepare documentation. And that's all, what unfortunately won't bring me any maintenance experience so long config hours don't prepare me for problems which people posts on forums. That's why I seek advice from you, much more experienced sysadmins. What's your way after preparing infrastructure? Do you simulate users' behaviour, if yes how you do that? Do you know any applications (ex. computing? Just came to my mind while posting) ?
Thank you for all advices, I do appreciate sharing your experience
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