Build 5 Real Infrastructure Projects from Zero
Escape tutorial hell for sysadmins — five hands-on homelab projects (monitoring, automation, DR, networking, security) with guided specs, code stubs, and a 30-day progress tracker.
- ▸**Project 1 — Monitoring Stack:** Deploy Prometheus + Grafana across your homelab. Includes a scrape config skeleton, Node Exporter install scaffold, and Prometheus server setup script.
- ▸**Project 2 — Ansible Automation:** Build an idempotent automation baseline with host inventory skeleton, install scaffold, and a structured 5-phase runbook.
- ▸**Project 3 — Disaster Recovery:** Write a real backup policy, configure rsync or Borg, and run a timed restore drill — with a pre-built runbook template and results log.
- ▸**Project 4 — VLAN Segmentation:** Segment your homelab network using pfSense/OPNsense or Linux nmcli. Includes topology diagram scaffolds and firewall rules policy table.
- ▸**Project 5 — CIS Security Hardening:** Run a lynis or OpenSCAP audit baseline, work through a CIS-aligned hardening checklist, and document your before/after score.
- ▸**30-Day Progress Tracker:** One pre-populated milestone per day across all five projects — open it, follow it, finish it.
- ▸**Portfolio Write-Up Prompts:** Every project includes prompts to turn your completed work into a LinkedIn post or résumé bullet.
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