2025 | Season 1: AI-Assisted CI/CD Optimization

Overview

This competition challenges teams to integrate AI/ML techniques into CI/CD pipelines, optimizing performance, improving failure analysis, and enhancing log summarization. Teams will work on a predefined GitHub repository and follow an agile sprint structure to iteratively develop their solutions.

Competition Duration

• Total Duration: 2.5 months (5 sprints)
• Sprint Length: 2 weeks per sprint
• Final Deliverable: A working solution presented in a live demo, including cost considerations.
• Start Date: March 17, 2025
• End Date: May 30, 2025

Repository Structure

.
├── docker
│   └── game
├── img
├── k8s
│   ├── devops
│   │   ├── Chart.yaml
│   │   ├── templates
│   │   └── values.yaml
│   ├── master
│   │   ├── Chart.yaml
│   │   ├── templates
│   │   └── values.yaml
│   └── microservices
│       ├── Chart.yaml
│       ├── templates
│       └── values.yaml
├── README.md
└── terraform
    ├── backend.tf
    ├── ecr.tf
    ├── eks.tf
    ├── github_secrets.tf
    ├── k8s.tf
    ├── local.tf
    ├── oidc_provider.tf
    ├── output.tf
    ├── plan.out
    ├── terraform.tfvars
    ├── variables.tf
    ├── versions.tf
    └── vpc.tf

Setup Instructions

1. Set Up Terraform

Terraform is required to set up the EKS cluster and supporting AWS infrastructure.

# Initialize Terraform
cd terraform
terraform init

# Validate Terraform configuration
terraform validate

# Plan the deployment
terraform plan -out=plan.out

# Apply Terraform configuration
terraform apply plan.out

2. Install ArgoCD with Helm

ArgoCD will be used for managing deployments within Kubernetes.

# Add the ArgoCD Helm repository
helm repo add argo https://argoproj.github.io/argo-helm
helm repo update

# Install ArgoCD with insecure mode for ALB access
helm install argo-cd argo/argo-cd --namespace argocd --create-namespace --set server.extraArgs={--insecure}

3. Deploy ArgoCD Applications

Once ArgoCD is installed, deploy the initial set of applications.

# Navigate to the k8s master directory
cd ../k8s/master

# Deploy all ArgoCD applications
helm template . | kubectl apply -f -

Rewards and Recognition

🏆 First Place: $500

🥈 Second Place: $200

🥉 Third Place: $100

• Winners earn the internal title "DevOps AI Master" for the quarter.
• First Place winners earn a public badge for "DevOps AI Winner."
• All projects will be showcased in lightning talks.

Participating Teams

Storm Troopers

• Dallin Rasmuson
• Ryan Young
• Blake Warner
• Mahmood Rahimi
• Brandon DeLallo
• Jonathan Leaver

Focus: Failure Analysis & Root Cause Detection

Autom8s

• Mike Olivieri
• Robbie Douglas
• Stefan Dalecki
• Caleb Cohen
• Steffan Williams

Focus: Build Performance Optimization

Team Vader

• Andrew Deweever
• Tyler Jenkins
• Max Bado
• Niraj Visana
• Ashley Ellis
• Trey Buckingham

Focus: Build Performance Optimization

First Order

• Andrew Huddleston
• Will Ahlborn
• Mo Banjo
• Scott Griffith
• Khane Mitchell

Focus: AI-Driven Log Summarization