Hackathon Guidelines

Everything you need to know about participating in HackOps

Participation

Open to university and college students from any institute.

Project Scope

Project idea can be existing or new. Focus is not on the novelty of the idea, but on how DevOps practices are integrated. Each team must implement post-development DevOps pipelines or workflows.

Expected DevOps Practices

Teams should aim to cover at least 3-5 of the following practices:

Version control (GitLab)

CI/CD pipelines (Automated build/test/deploy pipeline)

Containerization (Docker)

Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)

Monitoring & Logging (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Security integrations (SAST, DAST, Secrets Management)

Testing Automation (Unit/integration tests automated in pipeline)

Deployment (Cloud or simulated local)

Submission Requirements

Teams must submit the following:

Project GitHub repo with README

DevOps pipeline setup in the repo (visible config files/scripts)

Pitch Deck (5-8 slides)

Short demo video (optional, but appreciated)

Bonus Points

Up to 5% extra for deployment in cloud environments or using observability tools effectively.