VIScon Workshop: Create your own Cloud Infrastructure like a Pro

This event is only available for VIScon Symposium and Hackathon participants, and Helpers!

Please make sure to sign up to either one first.

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This workshop teaches participants hands-on how to use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps to provision cloud environments.

We’ll create our own infrastructure on Azure via Terraform and automate the process with a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline.

Workshop Goals

• Know the benefits of Infrastructure-as-Code & GitOps in modern software development
• Get hands-on experience on how to use Terraform to provision infrastructure on Azure
• Learn how it can be automated with a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and GitHub Actions
• Know how these technologies are used in enterprise IT projects

Workshop Outline

Introduction to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps

• What is Infrastructure-as-Code & GitOps?
• How do they improve the software development process?

Provision cloud environments on Azure with Terraform

• Set up a Terraform project
• Write Terraform code to create infrastructure on Azure
• Use remote storage to store the Terraform state

Create a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions

• Create infrastructure via pipeline
• Deploy application on created infrastructure via pipeline

Learn how those technologies are used on real-life IT projects

• Example 1: cloud-native application project
• Example 2: cloud foundation project

Stretch goals examples

• Parameterize the pipeline
• Make the pipeline more secure
• Enable blue/green deployments
• …

Requirements

• Bring laptop with internet access & admin rights
• Install Git & Terraform on laptop
• Sign up for GitHub & Microsoft Azure account

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