Hi Everyone, I'm Dinesh, I have 1.7 years of experience as an MLOps Engineer, working on Kubernetes and machine learning platforms. My work includes managing and upgrading Kubeflow, supporting Kubernetes clusters, troubleshooting production issues, automating deployments using GitOps, configuring service mesh and authentication, monitoring platform health with observability tools, and ensuring the reliability and availability of ML infrastructure. I also work on user access management, platform automation, storage management, and resolving complex infrastructure issues to provide a stable and scalable environment for machine learning workloads.

Hi everyone , I'm Kunal Prajapat from India , an MCA student with a strong interest in DevOps, Cloud Computing, and AI automation.

I've been learning and working with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub Actions, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines through personal projects and hands-on labs. I enjoy solving infrastructure challenges, automating workflows, and exploring modern cloud technologies.

I'm excited to be part of the Archestra Apps Hackathon, learn from experienced builders, collaborate with the community, and create meaningful AI-powered solutions.

Looking forward to connecting with everyone and building something awesome together!

Hello Everyone,I am Anuj and excited for this hackathon.

Hello Everyone,I am jaswanth and excited for this hackathon.

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Ashutosh, a DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience working with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Linux, and cloud infrastructure.

I'm passionate about automation, building reliable systems, and solving real-world infrastructure challenges. I'm excited to be part of this hackathon, collaborate with talented people, and build something impactful using AI and modern cloud technologies.

Looking forward to connecting, learning, and building with you all! 🚀

Hi Everyone, am sharathkamsali am excited to join for this hackathon i will show up my skills and as well as activity of my work.

Hello Everyone, I am Laxmipriya. working as a IT Analyst with 6 years of experience. Currently I have been working in container support and interested in moving towards devops. Looking forward to build and learn.

When will we receive the details about the hackathon ?

Hi everyone,

I am Shivakumar, currently working as a Azure DevOps Engineer. Excited to join this hackathon and try to build the AI platform which will be useful in daily workflow.

hello everyone i am Alwin Roy curently working as a linux admin excited to be part of this hackathon interested in devops and cloud looking forward to contribute and grow

Hello, everyone!

I'm Waseema, currently working as an AWS DevOps intern. Excited to join this hackathon, looking forward to contributing and growing in DevOps.

Hi everyone! I’m a DevOps and AWS Cloud Engineer with 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, and Kubernetes. I’m excited to be part of this hackathon, learn new things, collaborate with talented people, and build something innovative together. Looking forward to an amazing experience!

Welcome to everyone who joined our community because of the Apps Hackathon 👋

We’re launching the Hackathon today - please keep an eye on your emails throughout the day for the building instructions.

Hi everyone! I'm Hitesh, a B.Tech CSE student and aspiring AI Full-Stack Developer. I'm currently exploring AI, software development, and building applications with AI-powered tools. I joined Archestra to participate in the Apps Hackathon, learn more about MCP integrations, and build something useful and innovative. Excited to learn and build with everyone here!

Hello everyone, am Martins, A junior DevOps and Cloud Engineer, exited to be here

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Atharva, a student from India excited to participate in the Archestra MCP Apps Hackathon. I'm particularly interested in building AI-powered productivity and workflow tools, and I'm looking forward to learning from the community and seeing what everyone creates.

I also had a quick question: the timeline mentions that the kickoff materials, including the full brief, quickstart, and example apps, would be sent out today. I haven't received them yet—have they already been shared somewhere, or are they still being sent out?

Thanks, and good luck to everyone! 🚀

Great to see you all!

I am Vladyslav, and I am currently looking for a Junior DevOps role. That's why I decided to join this hackathon - to meet new people, gain hands-on experience, strengthen my portfolio, and get inspired by your projects ;) I heard about Archestra from Abhishek Veeramalla, and I think it is a great opportunity to learn ai development,

which is an essential skill in today's industry

Good luck🫠

Hello everyone! 👋

Great to be here.

I'm Anvesh, currently working as a DevOps Engineer with around 4 years of experience. I joined Archestra to connect with like-minded people, gain hands-on experience building AI-powered projects, strengthen my DevOps and AI portfolio, and learn from the community.

I heard about Archestra through Abhishek Veeramalla, and it seemed like a great opportunity to explore AI development—something that's becoming increasingly important in today's industry.

Looking forward to collaborating with you all. Good luck everyone! 🚀

hi evey one when the hackthon will then how they send any one send me

Hello everyone,

The Hackathon channel isn't showing up for me; only the "general" one.

Happy to be here!

@user hi

Hi, I'm B Rajasekhar, a Cloud & DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD automation.

I'm passionate about building scalable cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and solving real-world DevOps challenges.

Currently exploring AI-powered DevOps, Platform Engineering, and open-source technologies.

Did anyone received the kickoff materials by email?

Hi everyone,👋

I'm Shibu, a developer working in agentic ai applications. I'm happy to be part of this hackathon and excited to give my best part here.

Hi everyone,

Glad to be here

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Kanishka . I experience in IT Support, System Administration, ERP, and EDI. Currently, I'm transitioning into DevOps and AI, learning Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and AI agents.

Excited to be part of this hackathon, learn from everyone, and build something awesome together!

Hey @user i am using archestra tell me few cookbook example so i know basic how it is working then i can built project

@user hi

if anyone can share there learning on Archestra i tried AWS bedrock,cerebras,groq models but whenever i give prompt either token limit or tool calling or too much time it takes do share your learning if someone is successfully building app inside the archestra UI

If it's showing rate limited etc then it's an issue with the key you've added

Hi @user

Is an LLM provider configured for our Archestra instance? My app's built-in archestra.llm.complete() call is failing 100% of the time with error code llm_unavailable ("The LLM completion could not be produced") — it's not a quota issue (llm_quota), and it happens on every request.

My app code is correct (the call is caught and the error surfaced cleanly). I also checked and there's no LLM configuration tool or model-serving tool exposed to app authors, so I can't enable it myself.

Can someone confirm whether an LLM provider/API key + model is set up at the instance/admin level for app-level llm.complete calls? If it needs enabling, could you turn it on (or tell me who can)?

by when will we receive the challenge brief ?

The Hackathon instructions are out for everyone who registered!

Happy building :unicorn_face:

Good luck everyone!

Hey, thanks team! Excited to start.

What and how are we supposed to submit the app that we’ll build?

Hi ! I registered for the Archestra Apps Hackathon and received the registration confirmation, but I haven’t received today’s full brief, quickstart, or submission instructions. I also checked my spam folder. Could you please resend them or share the direct link? Thank you!

YES , i also need full brief ...

Hi,

I wanted to ask about the API key we're currently using. It looks like the usage limit is quite low, and we're reaching the quota quickly during development.

Is there a way to get a higher-limit API key, an upgraded plan, or additional credits for our project? If there's a process to request one, could you please let me know?

Thank you!

Hi,

I have registered for hackathon, but i haven't received any mail

Hi, i am an independent devops consultant, i wanted to connect with this kind of knowledge base and hackathon

Hello @user I didn't receive hackathon instructions

Hii how many participants are there in the hackethon

Hi Team,

I haven't received any email yet.

Hello everyone! 👋

I'm Roshan Lal Sharma from India.

I have 13+ years of experience in IT Operations, Incident Management, SaaS Product Support, and Service Delivery. Most recently, I worked as an Incident Manager, leading major incident response, production support, stakeholder communication, root cause analysis, and operational excellence for enterprise SaaS platforms.

My interests include ITSM, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, cloud technologies, observability, automation, and AI-driven operations.

I'm excited to be part of the Archestra community, learn from everyone's experiences, share knowledge, and connect with professionals working on modern infrastructure and enterprise technology.

Looking forward to engaging with you all. Feel free to reach out—I'd be happy to connect! 🚀

Hi Team,

i did not receive any instructions about the hackathon..

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Vaibhav, a DevOps/SRE Engineer based in Solan, Himachal Pradesh. I work across the usual suspects — GitLab CI, AWS EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, and Prometheus. Recently built a production-grade URL shortener deployed on EKS with a full DevSecOps pipeline and a Python-based incident remediation operator. Currently looking for my next DevOps/SRE role and joined Archestra to connect with people doing interesting infrastructure work, share what I've built, and learn from others in the space. Happy to be here!

hi team ,

hi all, is there any way to give a team access to a subset of models only ? I just see the possibility to hide models for everyone ?

Team, how is it going for everyone? :)

hi @user

For those participating in the Apps Hackathon :unicorn_face:

• How is it going?

• Where you able to find and follow the Quickstart guide we sent in the email?

• How the App submission flow works for you?

Please drop any questions or bug reports you have here 👇

Hi team! I finished my project, but I didn't receive the email with the submission link. Where can I submit my app?

Hi Archestra Hackathon Team,

I’m building my project using Archestra Apps and need an LLM API key with sufficient limits to run the app-building agent. My current provider’s free-tier limit is too low for the required request size.

Do participants receive sponsored API keys or credits for Cerebras or another supported provider? If so, could you please share the process for requesting access?

Thank you!

Hi mentors, I’d like some clarification about the judging expectations for the Archestra Apps Hackathon. Should we prioritize building an app with strong technical depth and impressive use of Archestra/MCP, or is it more important to solve a problem that is useful to a broad general audience?

Would a developer-focused app with a clear real-world use case be competitive, or are apps intended for general users preferred? How are technical execution, originality, usefulness and presentation weighted during judging?

hey i wanna ask something: if I contribute in this, any chance of me getting an internship?

Archestra bot is back 🎉 , it knows everything about archestra, deployment, and the hackathon 🙂

Hii Irfan here from India Comp Sci Grad with specialization in AI/ML and currently working as a data analytics and also exploring agents, MCP etc

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Gitansh Kapoor from New Delhi, India, currently working as a Platform Engineer.

I work across a range of technologies, including Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Backstage, Harness, GitOps, Serverless CI/CD Platforms. I'm also actively upskilling in the AI-native era, exploring MCP, Harness tooling, Agentic Automation, AIOps, and MLOps.

I joined this hackathon to build something exciting, learn from others, and connect with fellow creators. Looking forward to collaborating, building impactful products, and making some great connections along the way! 🚀 😄

If anyone would like to connect, feel free to reach out. Sharing my GitHub and LinkedIn below:

GitHub: github.com/GitanshKapoor

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gitansh16k

hi team!

my app uses the slack mcp and does real work in the channel it's connected to. now how do I record that for the submission? because it's just capturing the page it's recording.

can we get an option to submit our own screen recordings? @user @user

@user After creating MCP server to GitHub

can you please elaborate

yes i did with github

@user, after logging into archestra ai with admin credentials we have to change the default credentials ?

Hello! I am Manul from India, working as a backend engineer since past 3 years. I have shipped RAG chatbots and developed distributed backend services at my organisation in insurance domain. I have worked in: TypeScript, Nest.js, Python. Exctied to be a part of the community and contribute!

Good morning everyone, how's your progress? 🙂

I am facing rate_limit error , Too many requests. Please wait a moment and try again.

any quick workaround ?

Status: 429
Type: unknown_api_error
Message: Failed after 3 attempts. Last error: 429 status code (no body)

Raw Error:
{
  "url": "<http://localhost:9000/v1/cerebras/0ed72c90-cea3-490b-ac3c-d04843dc2fb0/chat/completions>",
  "statusCode": 429,
  "isRetryable": true,
  "responseBody": {
    "error": {
      "message": "429 status code (no body)",
      "type": "unknown_api_error"
    }
  }
}```

Hey all, we’re having a Q&A webinar for the Hackathon participants today.

It starts in 3 hours - we’ll show you hot to build an App in Archestra + answer any questions you have.

👉 Register here

Hey! Where is the Apps Gallery repo or form to submit my hackathon project as suggested?

Hi @user

May I ask someone to submit a toy app to test the submission flow? It won't impact the final submission 🙂

For those who have their app using slack mcp.did you encounter the redirect_uri did not match any configured URIs error. @user

We’re starting our Hackathon intro event in 10 minutes! Join here

hi guys. Can I track costs per user in archestra (without making a team or proxy per user 🙂 ) ?

I tried submitting my project and got this

Hi team,

I'm getting an error while installing microsoft__playwright-mcp. Can anyone help me with a solution?

My Windows WSL is broken, so Docker Desktop won't start. Is there a supported way to run Archestra using GitHub Codespaces or another cloud environment for the hackathon?

hi could anyone submit via the “sign in via github” option?

Was there a recording from the webinar today?