Creating your own telephony server - what software?

Question

Telephony

I would like to play around with telephony - make a virtual PBX for 2-3 internal numbers, add goodies like recording conversations, set melodies instead of long beeps and set various rules, such as operating mode, blacklists, answering machines ... City numbers ... Everything is like paid services)

They write a lot about Asterisk on the Internet, but I'm too lazy to code it and I'm afraid that it will take a lot of time.
When I need to quickly deploy a server for websites, I take debian and install ISP Manager in a couple of clicks, and only then I configure everything from the webmord.

Is there such a thing in telephony? To also easily and simply install the server and configure everything through the web panel?

Answer 1

This is too complex a topic. There are all sorts of GUIs, but they bring a bunch of problems rather than provide convenience.
Concerning the statement

Is there such a thing in telephony? To also easily and simply install the server and configure everything through the web panel?

No, it doesn’t happen, a phone call is not just telling number A to call number B, inside under the hood there are a billion subtleties and requirements for knowing and understanding a huge number of things. The device of classical and IP telephony, traffic and its types and how it goes, the operation of the network itself. All this should not just be heard but understood.
Just like that, you can play around with a couple of subscribers within the same local network almost like with ISP Manager, install freepbx and, in general, this is enough for you to see.
If you want to make everything simple in general, then these are only paid PBXs, for example 3cx.

Answer 2

There is. Buy asterix)
In general, there are control panels for it.
For example - freebpx
But you still need to deploy a virtual machine and put it there

Answer 3

Download iso and install on a virtual machine. What could be easier?
https://www.freepbx.org/downloads/freepbx-distro/