Quick intro

[Jorge O. Castro]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> And about setting up a server, it could be just any computer into the house
> (not a full-fledged server machine)? I'm a complete newbie to servers as I
> have never played with one before.

Thanks for showing up to the party!

Virtualization really helps here, you can just test on virtual
machines on your desktop and throw them away and rebuild them as
necessary. As a bonus you can follow these guides and start improving
them as you go along:

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/libvirt.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM

I like to keep a set of VMs around, one for each major release, etc.
Another option is using Vagrant, which is a nice wrapper around
Virtualbox for developers. We now publish Vagrant images
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/ but it appears we have no
documentation on how to use it, how developers should use it, and
common workflows, so if you want to learn a new tool we could really
use help here.

--
Jorge Castro
Canonical Ltd.
http://juju.ubuntu.com