Minimum laptop requirements for devops learning
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I started learning devops technologies, but I encountered a problem with my laptop on the first labs, I cant provision more than 3 VMs in Vagrant, and I found out that my processor is not sufficient, so I cant build labs of 6 or more servers ...
Is there a minimum requirement if I have to buy a new laptop ? Am I going to need less/more requirements when I'm going to jump to containers or newer technologies ?
My actual configuration : CPU : i7-7500U (4xCores 2.7Ghz) RAM : 8Go
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It'll probably really depend on your budget. 8GB RAM seems like very little, as bahrep suggested I would first try to see if your laptop can get a RAM upgrade.
If you can afford it you could also do your experiments in the cloud. It depends on what you want to learn (DevOps is a large field) but chances are you'll have to get acquainted with the cloud. If your current hardware does not allow you to run multiple infrastructures at once I would look into VM/VPS purchasing: you'll get the resources you need and get to learn about major cloud providers in the meantime.
