Projects to learn

[Geodav]

Hello, so I've got my VE up and running. Did the basic stuff create VMs and Containers, basic Firewall rules etc.

Could you suggest some projects to work on where you can learn more "in depth"?
I want to learn more about networking however any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you

 

[Dunuin]

A OPNsense/pfsense VM is great for learning networking and to increase security by routing/firewalling between DMZs and filtering traffic using IDS/IPS.
A NAS VM/LXC like a OpenMediaVault LXC or a TrueNAS VM is also always useful in case you want to use shared folders within your guests.
A Portainer VM (or even multipe ones for a HA kubernetes/swarm cluster, you can use up to 5 VMs for free with Portainer Enterprise and unlimited number with the Community Edition) is also always useful because much stuff like the Nginx Proxy Manager is only released as a docker container.
And a reverse proxy like the Nginx Proxy Manager is also always useful to have, so you can access multiple VMs/LXCs on the same port using only a single public IP.

 

[Geodav]

A OPNsense/pfsense VM is great for learning networking.l and to increase security by routing/firewalling between DMZs and filtering traffic using IDS/IPS.
A NAS VM/LXC like a OpenMediaVault LXC or a TrueNAS VM is also always useful in case you want to use shared folders within your guests.
A Portainer VM (or even multipe ones for a HA kubernetes/swarm cluster, you can use up to 5 VMs for free with Portainer Enterprise and unlimited number with the Community Edition) is also always useful because much stuff like the Nginx Proxy Manager is only released as a docker container.
And a reverse proxy like the Nginx Proxy Manager is also always useful to have, so you can access multiple VMs/LXCs on the same port using only a single public IP.

Thank you! I will look into your suggestions.

 

[LnxBil]

In addition to @Dunuin, run a PVE cluster as VMs inside of PVE itself. Also great to play around with PVE itself without screwing up your "outermost" PVE.