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Information Extraction Across Modalities
Module 2.5 of Level Up’s Azure AI Fundamentals series: structured fields from documents, images, audio, and video, and when to use Azure Content Understanding.
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Computer Vision and Image Generation
Module 2.4 of Level Up’s Azure AI Fundamentals series: image classification, object detection, OCR, image understanding, and image generation, chosen by the required output.
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Speech AI
Module 2.3 of Level Up’s Azure AI Fundamentals series: speech recognition, synthesis, and translation, and when to process audio in real time or in batch.
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Text Analysis
Module 2.2 of Level Up’s Azure AI Fundamentals series: key phrases, named entities, sentiment, and summarization, and how to tell classification from extraction and generation.
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Choosing the Right AI Workload
Module 2.1 of Level Up’s Azure AI Fundamentals series: six AI workload families, and how to classify a scenario by the transformation the system must perform.
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The Anatomy of an Azure AI Solution
Module 1.2 of Level Up’s Azure AI Fundamentals series: seven parts of an Azure AI solution, from input modality through evaluation and responsible AI controls.
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What AI-901 Actually Tests
Module 1.1 of Level Up’s Azure AI Fundamentals series: after April 2026, AI-901 is two domains, with Microsoft Foundry implementation outweighing conceptual recall.
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Level Up Joins the Google Cloud Partner Network
Level Up now participates in the Google Cloud Partner Network, extending our delivery services to migration, platform engineering, data, and AI on Google Cloud.
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Building an Automation Center of Excellence with Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
A write-up of Level Up CTO Daniel Goosen’s Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 session: why an Automation CoE still matters in 2026, five stages of maturity, a CoE operating model, AAP 2.7 as CoE primitives, and how to prove business value.
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Building an Automation Center of Excellence with Red Hat Ansible — Summit Connect San Jose
Join Level Up CTO Daniel Goosen at Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 in San Jose on September 24 for a session on building an Automation Center of Excellence with Red Hat Ansible — including automation maturity, CoE operating models, and what’s new in AAP 2.7.
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Cloud Cost Management Practice Overview
Level Up’s Executive Cloud Cost Management Practice helps you turn public cloud spend into a capital allocation decision you can explain, forecast, and govern. Show us your bill. We’ll show you five things you probably didn’t know about it.
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How to Build AWS Migration Waves from Application Dependencies
Migration waves are a topological sort plus business constraints. Start from evidence-backed dependencies, isolate foundation services, and keep inferred edges out of the critical path until a human confirms them.
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How to Detect Application Dependencies Before an AWS Migration
Wave planning fails when dependencies are interviews. Collect known edges from config and runtime, mark inferred edges as inferred, and refuse to hide the difference.
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The 7 Rs: Turning Migration Strategy into an Engineering Backlog
The 7 Rs are only useful when each disposition becomes tasks, Terraform candidates, Ansible candidates, and a wave. Strategy without a backlog is still a slide.
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AWS Migration Assessment: What Can Actually Be Automated?
Most AWS migration assessments still burn senior engineer hours on inventory, dependency collection, and backlog formatting. Those steps are mechanical. Architecture, risk, and cutover are not.
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Level Up Workshop: Deploying Cloud Native Applications With Red Hat® OpenShift® – October 21st
Level Up Workshop: Deploying Cloud Native Applications With Red Hat® OpenShift® – October 21st Join us virtually Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern for this Red Hat® and Premier Partner Level Up co-presented workshop, where you’ll be guided through building, deploying, and sca
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Celebrating Red Hat®'s Ongoing Leadership in Cloud Native Application Platforms
Congrats to Red Hat for once again being named a leader in Gartner®'s latest Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Native Application Platforms for OpenShift – and the only OEM whose solution is both designed to run anywhere and 100% based on open source. Red Hat press release: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/p
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Celebrating Red Hat®'s Leadership in Multicloud Container Platforms
Briefly, Level Up wishes to congratulate Red Hat® on being officially named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Container Platforms, Q3 2025! Read the full Forrester Wave report here: https://reprint.forrester.com/reports/the-forrester-wavetm-multicloud-container-platforms-q3-2025-f3367e46/i
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How to Finally Stop Talking About Your "Virtualization Strategy" in Air Quotes
Are You Staying on Your Current Hypervisor Because You Really Want To… or Because You Think You Have To? The reality is: there's more choice among virtualization vendors than ever. Yet too many customers we meet still initially tell us that they feel stuck with their legacy hypervisors. Meanwhile, w
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Introducing Level Up’s Cloud Cost Management Practice: Helping You Make Every Cloud Dollar Count
Over the past several years, Level Up has had the privilege of supporting some of the most forward-thinking organizations in their automation and cloud journeys. Along the way, we’ve seen firsthand how transformative public cloud platforms like AWS®, Azure®, and Google Cloud® can be, unlocking agili
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How to Prepare for the Red Hat OpenShift EX188 Exam: A Tactical Blueprint
Background As you probably already know, Level Up loves containers and all things cloud native. Preparing for a certification exam like Red Hat's EX188 (primarily focused on a high-level overview of Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes, as well as Podman, Skopeo, and Buildah practical skills) is about more
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Level Up Open Demo: Red Hat® OpenShift Virtualization – June 28th
Level Up Open Demo: Red Hat® OpenShift Virtualization Join us virtually Friday, June 28th, 2024 at 10:30am Central Time for this Red Hat® and Premier Partner Level Up co-presented webinar, where you will learn about the unique value proposition of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, including live dem
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The Centerpieces of Your Cloud Center of Excellence: Red Hat® OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform
Overview In today's fast-paced digital landscape, agility and efficiency are paramount. While made available to customers as separate solutions, Red Hat OpenShift and Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) can fully combine forces to redefine how IT operations and development teams collaborate, innovate,
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Red Hat® OpenShift Virtualization: An Enterprise-Ready Alternative and a Path To App Modernization
Overview Red Hat OpenShift is widely recognized as a leader in the enterprise Kubernetes platform space, setting the standard for open hybrid cloud environments. Its comprehensive operational suite, including robust automation, scalability, and security features not found in upstream Kubernetes, add
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OpenShift® vs. NSX: A Detailed Analysis of Networking and Security Features
Level Up has been pretty active with Red Hat® OpenShift Virtualization lately, and one of the questions we've gotten centers around how Red Hat's networking and related security features ultimately compare to NSX. For whatever reason, there seems to be a perception among a few folks who are currentl
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Level Up Open Demo: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization – May 31st
Level Up Open Demo: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Register now: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/oa09kpc/levelupdemo20240531 Join us virtually Friday, May 31st, 2024 at 10:30am Central Time for this Red Hat® and Premier Partner Level Up co-presented webinar, where you will learn about the u
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OpenShift 101 Workshop, Presented by Level Up, November 18th, 10am – 3pm PST
Learn how to build with speed, agility and confidence by leveraging Red Hat ® OpenShift ® at our complimentary, half-day, hands-on 101 technical workshop specifically focused on the unique opportunities and challenges for today’s public sector organizations. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have
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OpenShift 101 Workshop, Presented by Level Up, August 31st, 10am – 3pm PST
Learn how to build with speed, agility and confidence by leveraging Red Hat ® OpenShift ® at our complimentary, half-day, hands-on 101 technical workshop specifically focused on the unique opportunities and challenges for today’s public sector organizations. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have
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OpenShift 101 Workshop, Presented by Level Up, May 25th, 10am – 3pm PST
Learn how to build your containerized microservices with more speed, agility and confidence by leveraging Red Hat® OpenShift® at our complimentary, half-day, hands-on 101 technical workshop specifically focused on the unique opportunities and challenges for today's public sector organizations. By th
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Video: Paul Liebrand, "Building Cloud Ready Apps" meetup
The "Building Cloud Ready Apps" keynote was Paul Liebrand, Director of Technology Transformation at Pacific Life. This highlight from LA DevOps and Cloud's virtual meetup was recorded on September 24th, 2020. The full meetup recap is here: https://levelupla.io/recap-building-cloud-ready-apps-virtual
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Recap: Building Cloud Ready Apps Virtual Meetup 9/24/20
Last week, Level Up co-sponsored another virtual LA DevOps and Cloud meetup: "Building Cloud Ready Apps". Our keynote speaker was Paul Liebrand, Directory of Technology Transformation at Pacific Life. Video: https://levelupla.io/video-paul-liebrand-building-cloud-ready-apps-meetup/ LA DevOps and Clo
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Video: Becoming Cloud Native [Exec Overview]
Check out this exec overview of our video series, "Becoming Cloud Native: What to do when your company WASN'T born in the cloud": Red Hat partner Level Up Technology LLC summarizes our Pro Tips for becoming cloud native, all learned by our architects over the last decade spent in larger DevOps and Cloud
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Recap: Cloud Native Patterns for Health Care Virtual Meetup 7/22/20
Level Up co-sponsored and co-presented at yesterday evening's virtual LA DevOps and Cloud meetup, alongside partner Red Hat and an awesome group of attendees from the health care industry and beyond. Red Hat Principal Solutions Architect Brad Hinson drove a live demo on "Automating Compliance", show
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Building a Learning Culture With Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS)
As leaders, sometimes it’s actually our questions that communicate to the team what we value— better than anything else we say really can. “What did you learn this week?” is a great question for a Friday morning. It communicates that we expect our teams to have learned something in the first place.
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What's Your #1 Challenge With K8S Right Now? (We Want to Hear From You!)
On the journey to becoming truly cloud native, we all have those days… Level Up is always trying to learn from our customers, and right now our architects are curious to know what your current, single-biggest challenge is with the Kubernetes environments where you're running your production app work
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Video: Part 3: Network Automation with Ansible [Becoming Cloud Native] (Automation)
Along with your CDN, load balancers are a big part of the "first impression" user experience that's created whenever customers launch your apps. Doesn't that mean your developers should be front and center in making decisions about how they actually run? With Ansible for network automation, develope
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Video: Part 2: Network Automation with Ansible [Becoming Cloud Native] (Automation)
Network devices... pretty much the final frontier of infrastructure code adoption. In Part 2 of our Network Automation overview playlist, we show how network teams can get off to a FAST start using Ansible. And if you’re looking to give the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform a spin in your own envi
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What is Ansible Used For, Anyway?
Last updated: September 19, 2022 On the path to becoming cloud native, it’s often helpful to zoom out and look at some of the products we are using to actually put our ideas into practice, from the highest of levels. And being able to simply yet comprehensively describe key use cases for solutions l
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Video: Part 1: Network Automation with Ansible [Becoming Cloud Native] (Automation)
Looking for a 5-min exec overview about why Red Hat Ansible is ideal for network automation in the cloud and in the datacenter? We've got you covered. And if you're looking to give the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform a spin in your own environment, you can download a 60-day trial from Red Hat's
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Video: Integrate Ansible and Jira [Becoming Cloud Native] (Automation)
Simplify Your Jira Change Management Processes Via Ansible Playbooks As part of the "Becoming Cloud Native with Red Hat Emerging Technologies" playlist, this video is one in a series on Automation topics, in which Red Hat systems integrator partner Level Up Technology LLC is highlighting important featu
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Video: Integrate Ansible and Slack [Becoming Cloud Native] (Automation)
Give Your Organization Greater Visibility Into Ansible Playbook Runs Via Slack As part of the "Becoming Cloud Native with Red Hat Emerging Technologies" playlist, this video is one in a series on Automation topics, in which Red Hat systems integrator partner Level Up Technology LLC is highlighting impor
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Video: IaC Standards w/ ansible-lint [Becoming Cloud Native] (Automation)
Express Your Team’s Infrastructure Code Standards Using Custom ansible-lint Rules As part of the "Becoming Cloud Native with Red Hat Emerging Technologies" playlist, this video is one in a series on Automation topics, in which Red Hat systems integrator partner Level Up Technology LLC is highlighting im
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Video: Becoming Cloud Native w/ Red Hat [Public Sector] (Pro Tips 11 & 12)
Part 3 of 3 on "Becoming Cloud Native: What to do when your public sector organization WASN'T born in the cloud". In the third and final of a 3-video overview which is specifically focused on addressing the unique cloud and automation goals and challenges of state/local agencies as well as higher ed
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Video: Becoming Cloud Native w/ Red Hat [Public Sector] (Pro Tips 6-10)
Part 2 of 3 on "Becoming Cloud Native: What to do when your public sector organization WASN'T born in the cloud". In the second of a 3-video overview which is specifically focused on addressing the unique cloud and automation goals and challenges of state/local agencies as well as higher education,
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Video: Ansible is Declarative [Becoming Cloud Native] (Automation)
What we mean when we say that Ansible is a declarative (rather than imperative) infrastructure automation framework, and why that's better for your organization on the road to becoming cloud native. As part of the "Becoming Cloud Native with Red Hat Emerging Technologies" playlist, this video is one
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Video: Becoming Cloud Native w/ Red Hat [Public Sector] (Pro Tips 1-5)
Part 1 of 3 on "Becoming Cloud Native: What to do when your public sector organization WASN'T born in the cloud". In the first of a 3-video overview which is specifically focused on addressing the unique cloud and automation goals and challenges of state/local agencies as well as higher education, R
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Recap: Delivering Cloud Native Apps Meetup at TrueCar 1/16/20
With Red Hat co-sponsoring and TrueCar graciously hosting, we had another great turnout for the LA DevOps and Cloud meetup group at the TrueCar Santa Monica offices on Thursday, January 16! Keynote speaker Paul Schipitsch of TrueCar shared "TrueCar's Journey to Continuous Integration (CI)" and highl
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Simplify Your Jira Change Management Processes Via Ansible Playbooks
A big way in which we typically measure success with DevOps has to do with integration. Your new solutions need to work with whatever products your organization has already made investments in. Because whether IT decision-makers were thinking in terms of infrastructure-as-code when they originally p
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Express Your Team’s Infrastructure Code Standards Using Custom ansible-lint Rules
Coding style guides are becoming fairly common in larger organizations. (As examples at the deepest end of the pool, Google publishes guides for Python, Java, C++ and other languages.) Some coding style guides are more ambitious than others. Some are probably more reality-bound than others. We can d
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Give Your Organization Greater Visibility Into Ansible Playbook Runs Via Slack
As leaders, we are always striving to bring greater ownership/accountability to our organizations, and visibility to our internal customers. When it matters, the question of “Who did what and when?” matters more than ever. However, especially in larger microservices-based CI/CD environments, with an
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Recap: Cloud Native Patterns Meetup at TrueCar 11/20/19
Level Up was thrilled to be part of the Cloud Native Patterns meetup at the TrueCar Santa Monica offices on November 20th. There were over 50 RSVP’s, and we really enjoyed having a chance to connect with so many members of the new LA DevOps and Cloud meetup group. Meetup keynote speaker Regis Wilson
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