🚀 AI Hackathon for DevOps

First Ever AI Hackathon for DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineers!

🎯 About the Hackathon

I'm beyond excited to launch our very first AI hackathon focused on solving real-world DevOps challenges using AI. Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, platform engineer or from another stream with innovative ideas, you're welcome to participate. The goal is simple: let's push the boundaries of what AI agents and small language models can do for DevOps at scale.

💡 Theme: How can AI solve DevOps challenges that scale to hundreds or millions of users?

This isn't just about competing, it's about learning something new, experimenting with ideas, and building solutions that could make a lasting impact.

🛠 How to Participate

  1. Fill out the Google Form to register
  2. Star ⭐ and fork the ideaweaver-agent repository
  3. Start hacking in your own fork and raise a pull request
  4. Submit a 2-minute demo video (Google Drive link works) showing what you built + working code

NOTE: This is just an idea. You are welcome to bring your own, but it must focus on solving a real DevOps problem and be designed to scale to millions of users.

📅 Important Dates

  • ✅ Submission Deadline: Oct 1, 9:00 AM PST (no late entries)
  • ✅ Top 5 Project Demos: Oct 4, 9–10 AM PST (online)

👥 Team Guidelines

  • ✅ Maximum of 5 members
  • ✅ Choose 1 leader (Amazon gift card prizes will be sent to the leader)

🏆 Prizes

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1st Place
$250 Amazon Gift Card
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2nd Place
$150 Amazon Gift Card
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3rd Place
$100 Amazon Gift Card

🌍 Who Can Join?

  • ✅ Anyone, anywhere in the world 🌎
  • ✅ You don't need to be only from DevOps/SRE/Platform engineering, unique ideas from other fields are welcome too

🤝 Sponsors

Want to support the community? Reach out at support@ideaweaver.ai to sponsor this hackathon.

💬 Communication

All updates will be shared on LinkedIn and Discord (invite link will be sent after registration).

💡 10 Hackathon Ideas

Need inspiration? Here are some proven DevOps challenges that could benefit from AI solutions:

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CI/CD Debugger

Auto-detects failed pipeline stages and suggests quick fixes.

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Infra Drift Detector

Flags config drift between deployed infra and IaC.

☸️

K8s Troubleshooter

Explains pod crashes, pending issues, and service failures.

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Cost Optimizer

Identifies idle resources and suggests rightsizing.

🔐

Secrets Scanner

Finds leaked keys or misconfigs in code/images.

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Incident Timeline Bot

Builds outage timelines from logs, alerts, and chats.

📝

Release Notes Generator

Creates structured notes from commits & PRs.

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Log Anomaly Detector

Highlights unusual error spikes and patterns.

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Compliance Auditor

Checks systems against CIS, SOC2, HIPAA rules.

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On-Call Assistant

Fetches runbook steps during incidents.

🔗 Extra Inspiration

🎯 Final Goal

The ultimate goal of this hackathon is to learn, build, and have fun. Whether your idea is a cutting-edge AI agent, a small language model for DevOps, or something entirely new, this is your chance to showcase it.

🔥 Let's make this the start of something amazing for the DevOps + AI community!