Microsoft Cloud Hackathons
A New Way to Explore the Cloud
Hackathons bring together project managers, designers and programmers to build new solutions using Microsoft’s eco system of cloud technologies.
Hackers collaborate in small groups to develop test and experiment with new solutions in a safe non-production environment.
Our Experts guide attendees through a 1-3 day workshop as they face a series of increasingly complex challenges designed to mimic real-world scenarios.
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Why you will love it
Recruitment
Test candidate abilities while attracting the brightest talent from around the world.
Product Development
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Team Building
Encourage a culture of collaboration and teamwork within your organization.
Employee Training
Sharpen employee skills and enable them to succeed in a cloud-first world.
Microsoft OpenHack
We collaborate with Microsoft to deliver the OpenHack program by providing project management services, content development, onsite or virtual OpenHack delivery, and the platform that attendees and coaches use to access their OpenHack.
Microsoft OpenHack is a developer-focused engagement that connects development teams (Open) with experts to tackle a series of real-world challenges through hands-on experimentation (Hack) in person or online (Virtual).
OpenHack provides a unique and fun upskilling experience for Microsoft employees, customers and partners. Participants work together in teams to complete challenges that increase in complexity and are actively engaged, requiring deep collaboration, as they learn together.
How does it work?
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Login
Hackers login to a live cloud environment with the credentials provided by Opsgility.
Join the Team
Hackers join their team in a virtual meeting space to complete a series of challenges.
Review Solutions
Coaches review each team's solutions and offer guidance as needed.
Earn a Badge
Hackers who complete the challenge will earn an Acclaim Badge to display on LinkedIn.Popular Topics
Azure Challenge | 1 Day | Role: Cloud Architect
In this challenge, you will be challenged to complete the web server setup through a series of challenges. You will leverage various infrastructure as a service components, such as virtual machines, networking and availability options. After successful completion of the challenge you will earn a badge from Credly that you can share to prove your skills.
Azure Challenge | 1 Day | Role: Developer
In this challenge, you will be tasked to build a new web application using Microsoft Azure. These exercises will test your ability to work with a C# Asp.Net Web Application deployed to an Azure App Service. You will leverage your knowledge to integrate Azure storage, the Azure Content Delivery Network, Azure App Configuration, CosmosDb, and Logic Apps. Additional tasks will make sure you are familiar with Application Insights and using telemetry from your applications. After successful completion of the challenge you will earn a badge from Credly that you can share to prove your skills.
Azure Challenge | 1 Day | Role: New to Azure/Functional Consultant
In this hands-on challenge, you will be tasked to complete a variety of basic Azure administration tasks. These exercises will test your familiarity with the Azure portal and the most commonly-used Azure services. After successful completion of the challenge you will earn a badge from Credly that you can share to prove your skills.
Azure Challenge | 1 Day | Role: Developer
In this challenge, you or your team will be tasked with building chatbots. You will learn how to create a bot in Visual Studio and publish it to Azure. Then you will utilize the QnA Maker to create a chatbot. Next you will integrate the QnA Service into the original bot and finally deploy the bot to Microsoft Teams.
Azure Challenge | 1 Day | Role: DevOps Engineer
In this Azure Challenge, you or your team will be tasked with implementing Azure DevOps, setting up boards and a sprint schedule to manage upcoming improvements, and setting up continuous delivery and integration pipelines for your existing application.
Azure Challenge | 1 Day | Role: Developer
In this lab, you learn the basics of authoring and deploying an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template using Visual Studio 2019, focused on infrastructure as a service (IaaS) technologies. You will author a template that deploys a virtual machine, which gets automatically configured as a web server with a sample web app, as well as configuring a second virtual machine which gets configured with SQL Server and a database for the sample app.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: Developer
Overview: AI-Powered Knowledge Mining OpenHack enables developers to add intelligent search capabilities to their applications and services, leveraging artificial intelligence to extract meaningful results from data. Participants will explore ways in which Azure Search can be used as the core of a search solution, and how to enrich search through integration with Cognitive Services, the Language Understanding Intelligence Service, Azure Machine Learning, and custom code.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: Developer/Data Professional
NoSQL OpenHack challenges developers and data professionals to migrate a legacy database application to a cloud-based NoSQL environment. Participants will scale the NoSQL solution for global availability and develop new functionality to provide additional insights to the business and value to customers.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: Developer
Containers OpenHack focuses on containerizing an application and moving it to the cloud using Azure Kubernetes Service. Participants will explore what it means to make a cluster ready for production by addressing security, observability, and more.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: DevOps Engineer
DevOps OpenHack enables sound DevOps fundamental upskilling and developing Zero-downtime deployment strategies, which translates to reduced friction in production deployments, ensures that deployments of new features can occur more frequently and safely without requiring system downtime.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: Cloud Architect
Migrating Microsoft Workloads to Azure OpenHack is focused on migrating an enterprise environment with collection of apps and datastores from on-prem to the cloud.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: Developer
During the Serverless OpenHack developers will explore how to quickly build and deploy Azure Serverless (Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid & Cosmos DB) solutions.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: Developer
The Modern Data Warehousing OpenHack allows developers to learn how to develop, implement, and operationalize a multisource data warehouse solution on Microsoft Azure, leveraging technologies such as Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Azure DevOps, and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Hackathon | 3 Days | Role: Security Engineer
Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Compliance Manager, Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Secure Score, Secure score in Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Regulator compliance, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure policy, Azure Security Center, Azure Identity protection, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Data loss prevention, Microsoft Sentinel.
In this challenge, you will setup and manage Microsoft Intune for several client machines. You will learn to setup your environment for Microsoft Intune, enable basic compliance requirements, enroll client systems into Intune, deploy security measures, and finally insure that your enrolled client systems have access to Microsoft 365 apps.