Learn How to Prepare a Debian Installation

Learn how to deploy your server into a v m or on to that new hardware in the corner, whatever it is. That's a great, great way to learnand through the process, you can probably learn tools like shaff or ansible. O, actually using something like a one of the cloud providers, gives you a lot more options for testing this and building on your skill set. Ah, but it's a ton of tools to help you with that sort of stuff. And if you do it in the cloud, youan probably want to use terriform, or you going to want to learn terriform eventually? That sort of stuff, yes.