HPE DEV is gearing up for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) premier event, HPE Discover, to be held June 18-20, 2019 in Las Vegas. Expect three action-packed days filled with talks, workshops, and events designed to help your business become more agile. Software developers and designers will want to block off a good amount of time to spend at the HPE DEV & Design’s Hack Shack, which offers opportunities for hands-on learning and a place to become more engaged with the HPE Developer and Design Community. There, you’ll learn how HPE supports developers and designers in creating innovative solutions to complex problems, collaborating with them using open source software, “design thinking”, DevOps and ITOps tools.

The Hack Shack features two types of interactive activities: Workshops and Challenges. In the Workshops, you’ll get a chance to see innovative technologies in action. There will also be several design-related workshops, including some focused on Grommet – an open source user interface (UI) toolkit designed by HPE. In the Challenges, which run from show open till show close, we encourage attendees to apply their skills and build out their application ideas while competing for cool prizes.

At the Hack Shack you’ll find over twenty sessions where everyone is welcome, from beginners to experts. Below is a list of all Hack Shack Workshops and Challenges going on at the event.

HPE OneView

HSW8598 Hack Shack Workshop – Dive into infrastructure automation with the HPE OneView API.
Wednesday, June 19 at 3:00pm.
During this interactive session, you’ll explore the HPE OneView API using Postman. After that, you’ll use PowerShell or Python to write a script that automates HPE OneView. By the end, you will have written a simple example of infrastructure as code. Be sure to bring your laptop.

HSW9834 Hack Shack Workshop – HPE OneView Global Dashboard REST API.
Wednesday, June 19 at 4:00pm.
Thursday, June 20 at 11:00am.
Experiment with HPE OneView Global Dashboard REST API. Learn how you can interact programmatically with multiple HPE OneView appliances in a large, distributed environment through a single pane of glass. Be sure to bring your laptop to follow along.

Hack Shack Challenge with HPE OneView: Locate the rogue server in a large data center.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Apply the skills that you’ve learned to find the misbehaving server using only limited information and iLO logs. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

Hack Shack Challenge with HPE OneView Global Dashboard: Creating and populating a resource group.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Show off your ability to enhance an existing PowerShell module or create and populate a group of HPE OneView resources using HPE Global Dashboard REST API. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

HPE SimpliVity

HSW8622 Hack Shack Workshop – Use HPE SimpliVity REST API fundamentals to build a simple automation script in HPE SimpliVity.
Wednesday, June 19 at 1:00pm.
Thursday, June 20 at 10:00am.
Bring your laptop and learn how to interact with the HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged platform through its REST API. Explore the API description and use PowerShell or Python to automate the kind of HPE SimpliVity use case that may come up in your day-to-day work.

Hack Shack Challenge with HPE SimpliVity API: Build simple reports that show the status of on-going backups with user-defined time interval.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Leverage the granularity and simplicity of the SimpliVity REST API to build a report. Keep it simple or unleash your creativity to come up with a cool 3D graphical representation. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

Hack Shack Challenge with HPE SimpliVity: Build a solution to inject user scripts before and after a backup.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Use the SimpliVity REST API to build a solution for pre-and-post backup script injection to enable backup life cycle management use cases. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

Hack Shack Challenge with HPE SimpliVity: Create the most powerful backup script.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Learn innovative ways of producing bulletproof backups using the HPE SimpliVity REST API. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

HPE Nimble Storage

HSW8596 Hack Shack Workshop – Improve day 2 operations with your own custom automation with the HPE Nimble Storage REST API.
Thursday, June 20 at 12:00pm.
Bring your own laptop with VMware Workstation Player (or VMware Fusion for Mac) installed and get ready to use REST API tools to create your own custom automation for HPE Nimble Storage. You’ll get access to your own personal Nimble Virtual Array (a limited-time offer, but a great perk). To participate, a basic knowledge of block storage is helpful.

HSW8597 Hack Shack Workshop – Persist, optimize and accelerate using persistent storage in Kubernetes.
Tuesday, June 18 at 9:00am.
In this workshop, we’ll explain the differences between storing data locally versus externally and what workload types in Kubernetes are suitable for persistent storage. An overview of API-related objects, such as StorageClass, PersistentVolumeClaim and PersistentVolume, will be included, along with storage plugins and drivers.

HPE Composable Fabric

HSW8621 Hack Shack Workshop – Use network optimization with Composable Fabric to accelerate operations.
Tuesday, June 18 at 1:00pm.
Here, you’ll explore how Composable Fabric Affinity technology can streamline operations by automatically adjusting to different network needs (i.e. daytime versus nighttime). Different example workloads will be examined to show how they compete for bandwidth and how adding an automated storage affinity, i.e. HPE SimpliVity, can help.

Hack Shack Challenge with HPE Composable Fabric Manager: Initiate Composable Fabric operations through social applications.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Build a dashboard that shows the current network view configuration of the Composable Fabric mesh network quickly. Prizes will be awarded to the most innovative solution. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

HPE Design Workshops

At the Hack Shack, you’ll get to meet the HPE application design team and learn more about the resources they can provide to help develop applications. HPE Design workshops include:

HSW8626 HPE Design Workshop – Design Thinking for disruptive ideas - Empathy & Brainstorming.
Tuesday, June 18 at 11:00am and 12:00pm.
Do you have ideas that need to be explored? What if you had no limitations? Discover your next big idea in IT in this fast-paced human-centered collaborative design session.

HSW8625 HPE Design Workshop – User experience research tools and techniques that drive customer experience.
Tuesday, June 18 at 4:30pm.
Thursday, June 20 at 9:00am.
Learn how insights from user experience research and design can improve the outcome of your product roadmap using a multi-disciplinary approach to UX research and design strategy.

HSW8628 HPE Design Workshop – Design Sprint, Go! Rapid Prototyping & The Customer Feedback Loop.
Wednesday, June 19 at 10:00am and 11:00am.
Don’t make long term investments on ideas that have unproven customer value. Learn the value that comes when you pick a use case, design mockups, develop a prototype and test it with a customer.

HSW8593 HPE Design Workshop – Tools that help your customers and partners build amazing experiences.  
Wednesday, June 19 at 12:00pm.
See all the resources available to you through the HPE Design team.  We’ll walk through the hpe.design website and share tips and tricks that you can use to create world class experiences.

HSW8623 Hack Shack Workshop – Learn about HPE’s most popular open source library, Grommet, a class-leading React based UI/UX framework.
Wednesday, June 19 at 2:00pm.
Are you ready to turn stunning designs into pixel-perfect accessible web applications? Learn how you can start using Grommet to build class-leading web applications.

More Fun Workshops and Challenges

HSW9718 Hack Shack Workshop – Using RedFish API, monitor and manage HPE ProLiant servers from core to edge.
Wednesday, June 19 at 9:00am.
Join us for a demonstration of the configuration and monitoring of Redfish Event Service compliant infrastructure using Nagios Core monitoring engine.

HSW9835 Hack Shack Workshop — Simplify edge/IoT management with intent-driven computing.
Tuesday, June 18 at 10:00am.
Thursday, June 20 at 1:00pm.
See how an intent-based computing framework, Libere, can free users from tedious and complicated configuration tasks by automatically managing applications based on performance goals.

Hack Shack Challenge - Join HPE “Hello World” and get started on understanding scripting.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Learn how to code or improve your current coding skills. Your hack can be as simple as showing Hello World in notepad or a text editor like Vim. To win the prize, remember, creativity counts! No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

Hack Shack Challenge - You’ve heard of soup to nuts. Now, join us for a napkin to template challenge.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
In this two stage hackathon, develop something using public APIs. First, take a napkin and sketch your ideas on it. Then build out your idea using the napkin as a reference and the template project for starters. Judging will encompass both the napkin and the final published UI. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

Hack Shack Challenge for HPE Proliant for Azure Stack Administrators/Operators – Provisioning services and enabling DevOps for tenants.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
As an Azure Stack cloud administrator, you can create IaaS, PaaS offers that your tenant users can self-subscribe to. Here you’ll learn how to use PowerShell and/or admin portal to create/configure service offers with plans, quotas and enable user subscriptions. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

Hack Shack Challenge to seamlessly deploy hybrid cloud solution infrastructure with HPE Proliant for Azure Stack – Deploy apps to Azure and Azure Stack using an infrastructure-as-code template.
Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20 during show floor hours.
Explore the concept of using infrastructure as code to deploy application resources globally via Azure or Azure Stack. You’ll also learn how to integrate HPE Nimble solutions as external storage for virtual machines running on Azure Stack. No registration required. Just show up and start coding.

If you’re planning to be at the HPE Discover 2019 event, remember to stop by booth 2088 and meet HPE DEV & Design experts, attend Workshops, participate in the Hack Shack Challenges, or just chill and relax with us. The HPE Discover sessions catalog can give you more details on the workshops and challenges. To continue your experience after the show, sign up at the HPE DEV website to join the HPE DEV community. #letshackshack