Ask HN: Homelab projects to learn Linux admin and DevOps to get hired as one?

I'm purchasing a mini PC soon(3-4 months) as I don't have any personal device as of now for labbing. Till then I want to make a list of project ideas to work on that will enhance my resume as well as give myself a point to talk about in interviews regarding system administration or devops engineering. Start With A Static Website Host A Dynamic Website HTTPS Implement Basic Auth. implement monitoring solutions like naemon, graylog implement alerting solutions(Learn email server as a bonus) glusterfs, nfs/efs, ceph, borg Do all these with manual instructions from command line automated with bash scripting Configuration Management Tool(Ansible) Docker Kubernetes