---
title: Understanding the hackathon environment
exercise: 1
date: '2024-04-05'
tags: ['openshift','virtualisation','kubernetes','kubevirt']
draft: false
authors: ['default']
summary: "Let's get underway with the hackathon."
---

Welcome to the OpenShift Virtualisation Hackathon! Here you'll have a chance to build your container native virtualisation prowess. Exercises will gradually increase in difficulty as you go and award points for each correct solution. You're in a race to reach the highest score before the session concludes!

**Let's get started!**


## 1.1 - Obtaining your environment

To get underway open your web browser and navigate to this link to allocate an environment for your team https://demo.redhat.com.


## 1.2 - The hackathon scenario

Acme Financial Services is a large bank based in Australia. They have a number of virtual machine workloads that are running on a traditional hypervisor and are considering moving these to another platform.

One of the potential options for Acme Financial Services is to adopt Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation as a container native virtualisation platform. 

Your hackathon team are the pre-sales team engaging with Acme technical teams to secure buy-in for a large scale migration to proceed.