Learn Ansible and Terraform for Free: Provision & manage self-hosted virtual machines on Linux (with custom machine images) (opens in new tab)

If you want hands-on experience with Ansible and Terraform, you need infrastructure to manage. Most guides recommend paying for cloud resources on Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. This article shows how to build a zero-cost local lab using your own Linux computer. We will use QEMU/KVM virtualization and the Terraform libvirt provider.