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Personally, after looking at what the industry wants; I would start my homelab trying to automate it with Ansible/Terraform.
libvirtshould be decent, and if you want to go over to BSD, I think ansible supportsbhyve? If not,libvirtdefinitely runs on BSD so you could just automate thatI work in security, so there is no really devops/sysadmin prospect for me. That said, I use ansible and (mostly) terraform professionally and for my lab, so that's a good idea nevertheless. I don't have much BSD experience, what do you think are the key reasons to go that route instead of Linux?
For me, it's a personal decision. I find BSD more cohesive. That is subjective and has been debated for a decade now. I also find
bhyvea bit easier to use, albiet the features are newer and more in number in KVM (for example:bhyveuntil very recently didn't have VirtIO drivers, so Windows machines would be useless on it).I'm interested in working in Security myself. Would you be able to tell me a little more about your work? Also, what role/path in security would you recommend for a Cloud admin/System Admin?
Well, I started as an IT ops person, I got lucky before the first job was still in a fairly modern environment, and I got introduced to k8s, containers and linux administration (we were running k8s on baremetal). Slowly I moved more and more towards security, specifically infrastructure/platform security, which to be honest, is not too far from a regular Cloud/System admin. However, the big difference is in mindset and priorities, which slide from availability to mostly confidentiality and integrity. My job essentially consists on supporting the security of whatever Kubernetes cluster we run, both managed and on baremetal, with the usual spinkle of network security in the middle, and a strong focus in secure computation (i.e., container security). The actual work can range from research and experimentation, to concrete setup or development of new tooling, to developing standards and guidelines.
(Cloud) Security Engineering seems an obvious path for a cloud/system admin, and I don't think it's extremely hard to build the necessary security knowledge on top of a solid engineering background!