Hands on Palo Alto lab series

Building Your First Palo Alto Firewall Lab

This is the foundation lab—perfect for beginners.

No advanced topics. No App-ID yet. No HA.

Just the essentials to get a Palo Alto firewall up and running in your home lab.

By the end, you’ll have a working firewall with: ✔ Trust / Untrust interfaces

✔ IP addressing

✔ Default route

✔ Security policy

✔ NAT policy

✔ Test client connectivity

✔ Commit + validation steps

RSVP now, share with a colleague, and get ready to build your first working Palo Alto firewall.

This is the lab that starts everything else.