What you need for this book

To get the most out of this book, you need to experiment with the code contained in the recipes. To avoid errors impacting live production servers, you should instead use either test hardware, or adopt virtualization to create a test lab, where mistakes do not cause any serious damage.

This book uses a variety of servers within a single Reskit.Org domain containing multiple servers, and using an IP address block of 10.10.10/24 described in the Getting the most from this book section.

You should have a Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019 host with hardware virtualization capabilities enabled and use a virtualization solution. If you have access to a cloud computing platform, then you could perform most of the recipes on cloud-hosted virtual machines, although that has not been tested by us. You can use any virtualization.

The book was developed using Hyper-V and nested Hyper-V on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.