MCP & Gateway Setup Tutorial

I need to master how to build a complete MCP environment and hook it up to an MCP Gateway so I can support it for our IT help-desk operation. We have no infrastructure in place yet, so you will be guiding me from absolute zero all the way to a working demo that I can replicate in-house... (Budget: $15 - $25 USD, Jobs: Cisco, Cloud Computing, Linux, LLM Prompt Engineering, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Network Administration, PHP, System Administration, Virtual Machines, Virtualization)