Red Hat® EX188: Level Up Learning Club Session 1: 10/8/25
Background on the Level Up Learning Club for Red Hat: https://levelupla.io/announcing-the-level-up-learning-club-red-hat/
Today’s RHLS Module(s): Preface A: Introduction
Today’s focus: the Learning Club approach and how Red Hat frames containerization, before we start diving into the OpenShift ecosystem in upcoming sessions.
What we walked through:
- EX188 is built on RHEL 9, Podman 5, and OpenShift 4.18. This is the same basic stack used across ROSA, ARO, and self-managed.
- The goal of the exam is pretty straightforward: build and manage containers for Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments.
- The lab environment mirrors production where it should, a total of six VMs and it’s easy to spin up. The jump off point for us is
workstation. - The
lab start/lab finishcommands formalize treating every exercise like a stand up/tear down deployment lifecycle.
Key takeaway:
Before we even launch our first pod, we’re already seeing the strategy that makes Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes ecosystem so durable: reproducibility, isolation, and trust.
Next session: Intro to Podman containers.
Interested in Joining Us?
Level Up’s customers: email arc@levelupla.io to be automatically signed up for our learning club.
Other Red Hat partners’ customers: contact your Red Hat sales team for details and to request an invite.