Setting Up My Linux Lab with RHEL 9 (30-Day RHCSA Journey)
Day 1 of the RHCSA + Ansible Fast Track Training with the CloudWhistler Community was all about setting up the lab environment. This isn’t just busy work — this is the groundwork for everything we’ll build from here. And honestly? It felt like a real moment. Because setting up your own lab makes it real. What We Did: Installed VirtualBox to create our virtual environment Downloaded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9) ISO Created a VM from scratch and installed RHEL 9 on it Got our first look at the Linux CLI (Command Line Interface) — even if we didn't dive in yet This is where it starts. Your machine becomes your personal lab — a safe place to break things, fix things, and get hands-on with Linux.

Day 1 of the RHCSA + Ansible Fast Track Training with the CloudWhistler Community was all about setting up the lab environment. This isn’t just busy work — this is the groundwork for everything we’ll build from here.
And honestly? It felt like a real moment. Because setting up your own lab makes it real.
What We Did:
- Installed VirtualBox to create our virtual environment
- Downloaded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9) ISO
- Created a VM from scratch and installed RHEL 9 on it
- Got our first look at the Linux CLI (Command Line Interface) — even if we didn't dive in yet
This is where it starts. Your machine becomes your personal lab — a safe place to break things, fix things, and get hands-on with Linux.