The morning 3 hours hackfest is split into 3 tracks:

1. Gain Insight Into Assets with AI
2. Build a Modern Application on containers with CI/CD
3. Build a Bots with zero code

Choose the track you are most interested in. But don't worry, these are all publicly accessible so you can run through them at your own time.

1. A computer/laptop
2. An Azure subscription. If you do not have an Azure subscription you can create one for free at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/free/
3. For track 2, you will need to install Azure CLI and kubectl to complete the lab :

• Install kubectl
• Install Azure CLI

Building an Enterprise Cognitive Search Solution:

Start here: https://github.com/farishaddad/Knowledge-Mining-using-Cognitive-Search/blob/master/readme.md

Note: for Lab 3, create a Virtual Machine with Visual Studio 2017 community edition already installed. Follow instructions in Tasks 1, 2 and 3 here

An introduction to the principles of DevOps and containerisation using Azure DevOps (previously VSTS) and the Azure Kubernetes Service.

This is what you will be building:

Start here: https://github.com/VRouetAtMS/DevOps-and-Containers/blob/master/README.md