So ever since i kept seeing the adverts for the antsle ‘cloud in a box’ and the price tag to go with it. I wondered if it would be possible to build something better with a budget of of around $2000. Here is what i came up with:
How would you secure it? If my concerns with security are met, I might run their software in a virtual home lab that I plan on building in a few months.
If I understand your above statement, security is handled by taking snapshots of your virtual machines and when a bad actor finally gets hold of your virtualized network, you fix it by reverting your virtual machines to the snapshots taken earlier.
Not necessarily when you detect a bad actor, you just revert to the snapshots every morning regardless, so the VMs are transient. Your students store their work and documents on a NFS mount or USB key or whatever.
It has a greater variety of ports, but I think it’s based on tech that’s a couple generations older than the one you’ve got listed. Dunno if that’ll be a problem.