Hi there!

As the title suggests this is going to be a “how-to” post on installing virtual machine hypervisor (KVM), creating a new virtual machine (VM) using a tool called multipass, installing a web server inside this new VM, then configuring a loadbalancer (HAproxy) on the host in order to expose the web server from the VM to the public.

Let’s get started!

KVM⌗

$ sudo apt -y install bridge-utils cpu-checker libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon qemu qemu-kvm

Multipass⌗

ivnilv@sa584:~$ sudo apt install snapd
ivnilv@sa584:~$ sudo snap install multipass
ivnilv@sa584:~$ multipass launch --name gomastodon-social

HAproxy⌗