Automate RHEL 9 and CentOS Stream 9 Installation on KVM Using Kickstart0

• Infrastructure as Code, Job Automation, Linux Basics, Shell Scripting, System Administration, Virtualization, Web Servers
• July 23, 2025

Automating OS installations can save time and ensure consistency, especially when deploying multiple virtual machines. Kickstart is a tool from Red Hat that allows you to automate the installation of RHEL and its derivatives by providing a file with answers to all the installation prompts. In this guide, we’ll walk through a beginner-friendly step-by-step process to automate the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and CentOS Stream 9 on KVM using Kickstart. We assume you already have KVM (via libvirt/QEMU) installed and configured on your host system.