The EMEA Ansible Hackathon

What is the EMEA Ansible Hackathon?

A two-month event, exclusively for Red Hat and IBM developers and technical sales people to team up, build Ansible skills, share automation expertise, and work together to develop a winning contest entry.

As well as all participants increasing their Ansible knowledge by taking part, the winners will earn kudos and prestige from mastering the capabilities of automation.

Join the Hackathon to accelerate your automation skills

There a four phases to the virtual Hackathon:

1. Training phase starts on September 16 

   Before you take part in the Hackathon, we strongly recommend that you complete a minimum of two Learning Paths by October 7, or already have other Ansible certification. Please make sure you have completed relevant training on learning.redhat.com.

   You can also visit the topic oriented labs on RHPDS for more information on specific subjects that fit your individual needs. Information about how to sign up to RHPDS can be found in Mojo.

2. Live virtual enablement phase from October 8 to 25, 2020

   This is the time to accelerate your automation skills. The live enablement sessions are an opportunity to learn from, and interact with, the top Ansible experts at Red Hat and IBM. Watch out for an email from Magdalena Sobiak, HST Enablement Leader from IBM, with more details on the enablement sessions.

    

   We encourage you to watch the following 6 enablement sessions by IBM:
   EMEA Ansible Hackathon Webinar Introduction to IBM CACF
   Automation in Teams
   Automation in Style
   Ansible content development using Github, CI_CD and Galaxy
   EMEA Ansible Hackathon Webinar Automation at work
   EMEA Ansible Hackathon Webinar Automation at Scale

3. Hackathon registration phase from October 12 to November 15, 2020

   Once you have completed the education and attended the enablement sessions, you can register your participation on the GitHub repository. We will be sending a separate communication giving more details about this. You may register as an individual, but we encourage you to team up with other IBMers and/or Red Hatters.

   Once you have registered, you will receive an email invite to the Hackathon communication and support channel on SLACK , where you can raise questions and to collaborate with your peers.

4. Hackathon contest phase from October 26 to November 23, 2020

   You will have three weeks to develop your automation idea and create the code, in line with the development themes that we will share at the start of October. This phase will be run through the GitHub repository.

   All the ideas and codes provided by participants will be evaluated by a validation board with technical and business experts from IBM and Red Hat.