Christos Galanopoulos
DevOps Engineer | Microsoft MVP
Athens, Greece
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Christos is a DevOps engineer and a Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as Code and DevOps MVP. He is a proactive and results-driven professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions in fast-paced environments. With a strong background in architecting, automating, and optimizing complex systems, Christos is passionate about improving development practices and fostering innovation within teams.
In addition to his professional work, Christos actively contributes to the tech community through his blog, open-source projects, and public speaking engagements. He is the biceps-doc creator and has spoken at events such as Global Azure Athens and Azureheads. As an advocate for continuous learning, he remains engaged with the community and embodies a philosophy of perpetual curiosity. Christos is dedicated to sharing his knowledge and helping others grow and succeed in the tech industry.
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Streamlining Development Workflows in Azure
In today's rapidly evolving software development landscape, organizations need efficient, scalable solutions to manage development workflows and environments. This session dives deep into Azure's integrated development toolkit, showcasing how to transform your development practices for greater productivity and innovation.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How Azure Dev Center provides centralized project management and standardized configurations, enabling consistent development practices across your organization
- Ways to leverage Azure Dev Boxes for instant, ready-to-code cloud workstations that accelerate onboarding and enhance team collaboration
- Strategies for implementing Azure Deployment Environments to automate infrastructure provisioning and streamline your testing processes
By the end of this talk, you will be able to:
- Set up and manage a comprehensive development environment in Azure
- Implement efficient workflows that reduce development friction and accelerate delivery
- Configure and maintain secure, compliant development practices using Azure's integrated tooling
The Governance Paradox: Balancing Innovation and Control
Governance and innovation are often framed as opposites, with developers seeking freedom and stakeholders demanding control — yet both strive for velocity. The Governance Paradox highlights this tension and explores how platforms can serve as governance vehicles while continuing to support productivity and operational efficiency. This talk outlines a phased journey (Controlled → Directed → Autonomous), demonstrating how control can gradually give way to autonomy. Attendees will learn how to balance oversight with enablement, advancing platform maturity and achieving self-governance.
Streamlining Development Workflows
In today's fast-paced software development landscape, streamlining development workflows is essential for unlocking higher productivity and fostering innovation. In this session, we'll explore practical strategies for transforming your team's work by optimizing developer workstations, establishing golden paths, and enabling self-service environment provisioning. These practices help teams reduce friction, enhance collaboration, and deliver value faster.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How consistent, automated workstation setups using tools like Azure Dev Box and GitHub Codespaces can significantly enhance developer productivity.
- The impact of well-defined golden paths in reducing decision fatigue and boosting project success rates through scaffolding tools, template repositories, and Internal Developers Platforms (IDPs).
- How self-service environment provisioning enables developers to quickly set up reliable testing environments, removing delays with solutions like Azure Deployment Environments and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines
By the end of this talk, you will be able to:
- Simplify and standardize your development environments.
- Implement structured workflows that ensure efficiency and quality across projects.
- Empower your developers with the flexibility to innovate faster, without bottlenecks.
Policy-Driven Governance for Infrastructure Code
As organizations scale their cloud infrastructure, managing resources efficiently becomes increasingly complex. This talk addresses the concept of policy-driven governance, focusing on how the Open Policy Agent (OPA) enforces critical policies during infrastructure provisioning to mitigate risks such as misconfigurations and security vulnerabilities.
In this session, you will learn how OPA helps build secure, compliant, and resilient environments by:
- Addressing the key challenges of scaling infrastructure and the role of governance.
- Demonstrating how OPA enforces policies across the entire lifecycle, ensuring operational consistency.
- Showing how to integrate OPA seamlessly into deployment workflows.
Attendees can expect to gain insights into real-world applications of policy-driven governance using OPA. By the end of the session, they'll be equipped to implement OPA policies to ensure the management, security, and operational efficiency of their cloud infrastructure.
Managing Terraform State in Azure
Managing Terraform state is crucial for maintaining consistency, collaboration, and security in infrastructure as code (IaC) deployments. As organizations grow, handling Terraform state efficiently across teams, projects, and environments becomes increasingly complex. Teams risk state corruption, security vulnerabilities, and operational inefficiencies without proper management.
In this session, you'll discover:
- How Terraform state works and why remote state management is essential
- Best practices for securely storing and managing state in Azure using storage accounts
- Key design principles for structuring Terraform state storage to support projects of any size
- How to ensure scalability, access control, and resilience in multi-team environments
By the end of this talk, you will be able to:
- Design a robust Terraform state management strategy tailored to your organization
- Implement a scalable storage architecture that balances security and flexibility
- Streamline Terraform workflows with Azure-native security and governance features
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