Red Hat / Cloud-native applications / EX188

Build and operate applications with Podman

Start the cloud-native developer route with standalone containers. EX188 is a practical exam covering images, registries, Containerfiles, local and multi-container applications, storage, security, and troubleshooting.

Core learning

Follow the current official objectives

  1. 1.Container and image fundamentals
  2. 2.Containerfiles and custom images
  3. 3.Registries, tags, pull, push, and backup
  4. 4.Rootless Podman networking, storage, and secrets
  5. 5.Multi-container applications
  6. 6.Inspection, logs, events, and troubleshooting

Hands-on consolidation

Perform the work in an isolated lab

On a disposable RHEL-compatible host, build two custom images, publish them to a private registry, run a rootless multi-container application with persistent data, secrets and networking, generate a persistent service, then diagnose broken image, permission, port, and volume configurations.

Ready when…

You can build, run, connect, persist, secure, inspect, and troubleshoot containerized services without relying on a graphical interface.

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