Building a testing lab

Now that you have chosen your tools and frameworks, let’s start building the environment that will accommodate our lab. I won’t show neither the hypervisor nor Ubuntu installation steps because they are very straightforward. However, should you find some trouble while installing them, you can always check the official documentations , such as https://help.ubuntu.com/20.04/installation-guide/index.html, https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/getting-started/, and https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.18/UserManual.pdf. The sequence of tools that you will see in this section sort of follows the sequence they are introduced in the upcoming chapters. Some of them only contain a couple of screenshots and were not actually used throughout the book. So, their installations won’t be covered here.

Installing Docker

Let’s start with installing Docker first.

1. With your VM fully loaded, open a command prompt...