Alayshia Knighten

Unleashing Potential Across Teams: The Power of Infrastructure as Code

What if you could automate security compliance and unblock developers simultaneously? See how infrastructure as code makes it possible.

Unleashing Potential Across Teams: The Power of Infrastructure as Code
#1about 1 minute

Introduction to Infrastructure as Code for all teams

Infrastructure as Code is a powerful approach that can unlock potential for developers, security engineers, and other technical roles.

#2about 1 minute

Understanding modern cloud infrastructure challenges

Modern infrastructure involves complex, diverse environments with competing needs for security, agility, and cost savings.

#3about 2 minutes

What is Infrastructure as Code and its impact

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) treats infrastructure management like software development, enabling automation, consistency, and scalability.

#4about 4 minutes

How IaC benefits different technical roles

IaC provides specific advantages for developers, SREs, platform engineers, and security teams by improving workflows and collaboration.

#5about 4 minutes

Creating a strategy for implementing IaC

A successful IaC implementation requires choosing the right tools, defining abstraction levels, and considering team dynamics and training.

#6about 2 minutes

Practical steps for getting started with teams

Begin your IaC journey by identifying joint pain points, understanding end-user needs, and making incremental changes.

#7about 10 minutes

Demo of building infrastructure with abstraction layers

This live demo shows how to structure IaC using Python and Pulumi, from basic code to reusable components and templates.

#8about 5 minutes

Demo of enforcing compliance with policy as code

See how to codify company policies, such as required tags, and automatically remediate non-compliant infrastructure during deployment.

#9about 1 minute

Key takeaways for embracing IaC in your organization

Empower your teams by starting small with IaC, focusing on solving real problems, and gradually expanding its use.

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Python
Docker
Terraform
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