Self-Hosting 101: A real-time self-hosting workshop

This is a continuation from my talk that I gave at UbuCon Asia 2025: https://events.canonical.com/event/127/abstracts/838/

This time, I want to host a workshop where I'll walk people through the steps on how to setup Ubuntu server from scratch for self-hosting. I'll start with setting up an LXD VM with Ubuntu server. I'll walk through securing the server using firewall, fail2ban and other things. I'll then cover setting up a reverse-proxy like nginx and then host a simple web application on it. If time permits, I can also cover setting up podman for containers. I can also go a bit deep into the concepts and cover the basics of routing and tunneling as well.

Requirements from attendees:

• Laptop.
• It would be great if they could setup LXD on their device (I'll walk people through this if most of them aren't familiar with LXD.)
• It would be great if they could pre-download the Ubuntu server ISO (https://ubuntu.com/download/server).

More info: https://events.canonical.com/event/146/contributions/945/