[Sheeny96]

Bare metal virtual machines? Do you mean a virtual machine on bare metal? In which case, it's just a vm - all VMs on some level live on bare metal.

You're on the right track with Ansible - I'd suggest just buying a raspberry pi and deploying whatever you want to it via ansible over your home network. Once you're comfortable with all the basics, spin up a vm on the pi and then deploy to that. You could then even try deploying the whole VM itself as an image! Then try to deploy the same stack to a cloud hosted machine. Even If you don't want to run cloud systems, it'll allow you to deploy to a machine outside your network and you'll get exposure to how that works.

Just start small and build up.

[shivajikobardan]

Yeah I mean virtual machines. Thank you!