Peter De Tender
Inspiring through Technology... and DevOps
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Peter has an extensive background in architecting, deploying, managing and training on Microsoft technologies, dating back to Windows NT4 Server in 1996, all the way to the latest and modern Azure and AI solutions available today. With a passion for Cloud Architecture and DevOps, Peter always has a story to share on how to optimize your Enterprise-ready cloud workloads, from skilling the world largest Microsoft customers through compelling workshops over the last 15 years. After 6,5 years at Microsoft as Microsoft Technical Trainer, he recently transitioned into the role of Senior Content Developer for Dev/AI/DevOps, focusing on DevOps/GitHub content on https://aka.ms/Learn and Instructor Led Training (ILT) material, used by global Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs).
You can follow peter on LinkedIn (/in/pdtit) and read his (mostly) technical blog adventures on http://www.007ffflearning.com
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Why am I still nervous after presenting for +25 years, and what I learned
I still remember my first public speaking gig, now +25 years back, because it wasn't a great success. At least in my head. My audience varies from 1 individual to +2,500 at large stages like Microsoft Ignite. And yet, I'm still nervous when starting. But I learned how to get the butterflies fly in formation. Everyone is a good speaker, you just don't always know. I want to approach this session more like a workshop, sharing what worked for me, what didn't (like fake it till you make it...) and how you can prepare for it.
What can the Azure Well-Architected Framework do for you?
You have been using Azure for a few months or years now, resources are up, business-critical workloads have been running fine and you (almost) forgot about the physical datacenter world. Cool! So why should you look into the Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF)? Well, it's the best way to get a view on your current AND future state of Azure, sharing guidelines on how to optimize your Azure landscape from 5 pillars: security, reliability, cost, performance and overall operations.
Learn from Peter De Tender, Azure Technical Trainer at Microsoft with several years of real-life cloud solution architecture background, what WAF has to offer for your organization. Sharing the insights, as well as a condensed list of tips & tricks to maximize Azure potential for your applications.
What if You Could Deploy 50 Azure Demo Scenarios Using 1 Line of Code?
3 years ago, I developed a Blazor .NET frontend for Azure DevOps, allowing internal Microsoft Trainers to deploy Azure demo scenarios using a one-click approach.
early FY25, a decision was made to revamp this concept, and make a similar tool available to both internal Microsoft trainers as well as Microsoft Certified Trainers like yourself.
In this session, Peter will cover the history, present and future of the tool, what the WWL project v-team approach looked like, and most importantly, showing how you can start leveraging the demo scenarios for your Azure classes, right after the Summit. And if you like the solution, you will also learn how you and any other (Azure) MCT can contribute to the success of this tool.
Using Jupyter Notebooks to create compelling and interactive Azure CLI demos and more...
Whenever you use 'some code' in a demo like PowerShell, Azure CLI, or even running some .NET code from the terminal, is it really engaging to your audience?
Well, soon you will be able to not only do a more compelling, interactive and live demo using Notebooks, but you can also extend the code with MarkDown-based text for documentation, or writing your 'story'.
As Technical Trainer, I started integrating this approach a lot for my (code-based) Azure CLI and AI demos, and customers love it! Soon you will love it too!
Using GitHub Copilot as your peer DevOps Engineer
GitHub Copilot is positioned as your 'peer developer', but do you know it is also an excellent DevOps engineer? Assisting in writing commit messages, reviewing Pull Requests and providing support in writing pipelines, or fixing errors when they occur? If you want to see all this in exam during compelling live demos, make sure you grab a seat in this session.
Using GitHub Copilot to master Terraform templates
GitHub Copilot is a generative AI tool, dramatically optimizing how developers write code. But did you know there are way more capabilities, targeting non-developers as well? One of them is using it as a virtual assistant to help you with Terraform templates. Documenting or explaining what your templates are doing, suggesting infra as code syntax, or what about using Agent Mode to not only write templates, but also run Terraform steps in an automated way and more? That's exactly what this session will cover, primarily using live demos - which is usual in Peter's sessions
Using Blazor to build a self-service portal for Azure DevOps
I am a big fan of automation and even more when it's wrapped around Azure DevOps pipelines. Giving the opportunity to the business to quickly deploy workloads across different environments. But not everyone within an organization is supposed to be an expert on using Azure DevOps. The solution is a self-service portal. As a newbie developer at age 45, my first coding experience was with Blazor and it skyrocketed me in realizing what I wanted to build, together with Azure DevOps REST APIs. A user authenticates, selects a scenario, pushes the button and that's it.
Unwrapping Azure deployments with AzAPI and Terrafy
Terraform has the core Azure Provider, but it's not the only way to manage your Azure Deployments. More recent, Terraform AzAPI and Terrafy have seen the light and allow powerful deployments. Struggling with importing existing resources? AzTfy can be of help here. Expect a demo-packed session where Peter walks you through several scenarios on how to use these new tools efficiently.
Unlocking Productivity with GitHub Copilot in 45 min
Are you ready to elevate your coding experience? Join us for a 45min DEMO PACKED session on GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant that's transforming the way developers work.
This session is designed for scripters of all skill levels who are eager to leverage cutting-edge technology to boost productivity, improve code quality, and enhance their overall development process.
the what and why of MCP for your business AI applications
LLMs allow us to use prompting on pretty much any topic. But it's lacking knowledge about your business applications. RAG - Retrievable Augmented Generation - architecture was part 1, where MCP - Multi Context Protocol - is part 2 in that scenario.
In this session, Peter will walk you through a set of demos, to clearly illustrate how MCP allows any organization to connect to existing business data, using the same prompts you use to ask about the weather or create your next meal recipe.
Unlocking Productivity with GitHub Copilot
Are you ready to elevate your coding experience? Join us for a dynamic 4-hour workshop on GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant that's transforming the way (PowerShell) developers work. This session is designed for coders of all skill levels who are eager to leverage cutting-edge technology to boost productivity, improve code quality, and enhance their overall development process.
This interactive session is designed to be hands-on, with plenty of opportunities for participants to engage in real-time coding exercises.
Running Azure AI from Docker Containers
Azure AI relies on public API endpoints for all different AI services (compute vision, face recognition, text analysis,...). But sometimes, you might have a need to run the object analysis from an offline location, or you want to keep data confidential, or you want interaction from within a Kubernetes-alike container architecture.
That's where the Microsoft Azure AI prebuilt Docker container images come to the rescue.
Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Microsoft Technical Trainer from Redmond, WA, what Azure AI container images are available, how to run them, as well as how to interact with the REST APIs from a Swagger interface. As common for Peter's presentations, this will be mainly live demos, with the absolute minimum of slides.
The Spring Blossom of Azure Monitoring tools
Monitoring Azure workloads is often seen as complex, as there are close to 12 different tools and services, which do "something Monitoring related", depending the kind of workload you are running, or the kind of information you want to retrieve. This session will walk you from the most basic to the more advanced, and touching on each current service, providing monitoring capabilities.
As typical in Peter's sessions, this will be mostly demo-driven, showing live capabilities, instead of flipping slides.
Preparing for and passing the Azure AI-102 exam
Having AI experience is awesome, but it's even better to proof (and show!) your skills by having the official AI-102 Microsoft Certification credential.
Microsoft exams are hard, tricky, stressful... but not impossible to pass. Even better, most information you need to prepare yourself, is available online. You just need some coaching, some structure and guidance on where to get started, how to prepare your preparation journey, and how to optimize your passing chances.
That's exactly what this session is about, presented by Peter De Tender, Microsoft Technical Trainer at Microsoft HQ, Redmond, WA, who has been a Microsoft Trainer for +15 years, and helped > 25.000 learners skilling up on Azure, and getting certified.
Microsoft DevOps Solutions or how to integrate the best of Azure DevOps and GitHub
DevOps is primarily about the culture, and less about the tooling. Until you provide weekly workshops on both Azure DevOps and GitHub to customers as a Microsoft Technical Trainer. Instead of comparing the tools, wouldn't it be better to embrace the best of both platforms, and use the same integration culture as DevOps prescribes?
Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Technical Trainer at Microsoft, through compelling demos, how both platforms can empower each other, resulting in better DevOps.
Maxing out the capabilities of Azure App Services
Azure App Services is so easy to use, yet insanely powerful for hosting your business-critical web applications in Azure. After talking to customers during weekly Azure workshops, I found out most are only using half of its capabilities. So time to fix that.
If you are looking for maxing out the capabilities (blue/green deployments, devops integration, performance and load testing, troubleshooting, advanced monitoring, autoscaling) to name just a few, sit it this session from Peter De Tender - Microsoft Technical Trainer from Seattle, WA, who's providing interactive Azure workshops to Microsoft's top tier customers every single week. If you are expecting a slow, slide-based session, please look elsewhere, as Peter's sessions are known to be high-paced, and packed with compelling live demos!
Microsoft DevOps Solutions for beginners
This workshop introduces beginners to the concepts of DevOps, using both Azure DevOps and GitHub as main platforms. Starting from the culture of DevOps, it will quickly shift to more technical capabilities with source control in Git-enabled Repos. You will learn how to commit changes, how to review work with Pull Requests. From there, the rubber touches the road, as you will learn how to create your CI/CD Pipelines, again touching on both Microsoft DevOps platform capabilities. Last, you learn how to integrate DevSecOps, as security is key in all this.
Mastering Chaos Engineering with Azure Chaos Studio
Explore the transformative power of chaos engineering with Azure Chaos Studio. In this session, you'll learn how to simulate outages and stress-test your environments to build more resilient systems. Through a hands-on demo, we’ll show you how to proactively uncover vulnerabilities and turn potential failures into opportunities for growth.
Keynote: MCTs in a Frontier Firm World
In April 2025, Microsoft announced the term "Frontier Firm" for the first time in internal communications. A Frontier Firm is a new type of organization that is human-led but AI-operated, where intelligence is treated as an on-demand utility and embedded across everyday work and business processes. Sounds cool, but what does this mean for MCTs? Having been a trainer for +20 years, of which +15 as an MCT and 6,5 as Microsoft Technical Trainer, Peter will share his personal opinion on how - as MCTs - you are no longer explaining and training the future, you are able to shape it! For both yourself and your learners.
Leave work items management to the agents!
Azure DevOps Boards is still a DevOps project management power house, even when using other DevOps platforms. But nobody likes the administrative burden of managing Epics, Bugs, comments, links,...
Exactly why the GitHub Copilot integration is worth talking about. Or probably showing, because I like live demos more than slides.
Integrating GitHub Copilot into your daily PowerShell Workflow
In this session, I'll show you how GitHub Copilot can be integrated into your daily PowerShell processes. Starting from documenting the scripts you already have, we quickly move to script authoring, optimizing code and automating multi-file modifications
Integrating and Migrating Azure DevOps with GitHub
Azure DevOps has been the Microsoft reference tool for devops engineers and running CI/CD pipelines. While it's still getting updated and enriched with new features, GitHub is gaining more and more market share. Customers are struggling with this duel message and want to know which way to go. Let me help you with this session, where I'll show you mostly using live demos, how you can keep using Azure DevOps, but gradually integrating, and eventually migrating, to GitHub and GitHub Actions. After training more than 15.000 devops engineers from TOP 500 Microsoft customers over the last 2,5 years, I have a ton of examples and reasons to proof it's not impossible, but rather straight-forward. Come and see! and redo the same in your environment as of next week
How I migrated a 5 year old MongoDB Node app to CosmosDB in 5 minutes
I built a Node app in 2017, which connects to a MongoDB Server. I was amazed I only needed to update 1 single line of code in my Node app to get my DB working against CosmosDB. I will show you the code and perform a live switch to Azure CosmosDB, with only a 5 sec hiccup in the app because of switching...
How Blazor made me a developer with +26 years IT PRo background
I started my career in 1996 as WindowsNT Engineer and consultant, and seen all corners of physical datacenters. Mid 2012, I started shifting more and more to Azure, and added DevOps to my skillset as of 2019. I never thought I could become a developer, until I saw .NET Blazor for the first time.
Thanks to the straight-forward component model of Blazor, I was able to build a web app, which integrates with several Azure services (Storage, KeyVault, App Services, SQL Azure,...), as well as Azure DevOps REST API calls to trigger pipelines.
Blazor helped me becoming a developer, as well as a better Azure Solution Architect. And I can still rely on some of my 2 decades experience as an IT Pro...
Forget About Split Profiles: Turn Any User into Admin Mode and Back Using Azure Privileged Identity
For years, the best practice to manage administrative rights was providing two user profiles: One to check email, and another one to manage servers. But that's a rather fine line to trust between using or misusing powers. Thanks to Azure PIM, you can govern who's getting admin privileges, for what and how long. On the plus side, users who don't need or want admin privileges can release them using self-service. In this hands-on, demo-based session by Peter De Tender, you’ll learn how you can perform auditing, control and governance of any user, any administrative role and identify what they can do within your hybrid organization.
GitHub for system and cloud administrators like all of you
In the world of datacenter, server, client, cloud administration, we should try and automate as much as possible. We all have a collection of scripts sitting around. But how to efficiently store them? How to keep track of changes? What about versioning? and what if we need to build more complex workflows?
DevOps scares admins, although 50% of the DevOps culture points at you. In this session, I will primarily focus on the source control aspect of the process. Walking you through common GitHub repos scenarios, from creating to cleanup and everything in-between, using tons of live demos.
Enter the world of Entra and own your identity security
Azure Active Directory is the foundation of Azure security, providing powerful cloud identity features. But the world is moving fast, especially in the domain of cloud security, permission management and multi-cloud identity. That's where Microsoft merged all 3 scenarios in a new concept, called Microsoft Entra. Microsoft Entra is the vision for identity and access that expands beyond identity and access management with new product categories such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) and decentralized identity. Expect several compelling demos, with only a minimal of slides to grasp the core concepts.
Discover the future of developing apps with GitHub Copilot
GitHub is the trusted place where developers store code and run DevOps pipelines. And thanks to GenAI, it is even more than ever, turning into your trusted peer-developer. It helps not only in suggesting code snippets, but also allows you to explain code and document code. Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Technical Trainer at Microsoft, how he's using GitHub Copilot almost daily to build and develop demo applications for his workshops, as well as using it as his new developer buddy in his journey to become a better .NET developer
Enriching the already amazing Azure AI in your .NET applications with Semantic Kernel
Ever since OpenAI revolutionized the world with ChatGPT and their Large Language Models, developers are expected to integrate some sort of Generative AI into their applications. Thanks to Azure OpenAI, the integration is identical to interacting with any other Azure service or API. But why limiting your app to the ‘knowledge’ of the LLM, if you can extend it with additional intelligence? That’s what Microsoft’s Open Source Semantic Kernel SDK brings to the table.
Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Microsoft Technical Trainer in the WWL West US team, what Semantic Kernel is, how to use the SDK in your .NET Applications. As typical in Peter’s sessions, this is done using only a minimum set of slides, yet tons of live demos instead, so you can see it in action.
DevSecOps with GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)
DevSecOps tries to make DevOps teams aware about integrating security into each and every step of the process. But this is complex, with a need to integrate a whole set of tools. But no more, thanks to GitHub Advanced Security, baked into your trusted DevOps environment. In this session, Peter will guide you through a full range of built-in GitHub security features, ranging from branch policies over code scanning, security vulnerability scanning with Dependabot and CodeQL, how to enable it, how to use it and how to interpret the reporting.
Developing Custom Copilots with Azure AI Studio, PromptFlow and .NET
Thanks to Azure AI Studio, developers, data scientists and cloud teams can all use the same single interface to manage AI solution development. Starting from the creation of a Hub and Project, you learn how to compose a custom Copilot using PromptFlow, and calling this prompt from your .NET application.
Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Technical Trainer in the WWL West US team, everything you need to get you warm to start exploring and building custom Copilots yourself. and as typical in Peter's sessions, this will be more live demos, code and only a minimum of slides.
Developing custom copilots with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Generative AI was revolutionary 2,5 years ago, and feels mainstream already. The new kid on the GenAI block is AI Agents. This session will be a demo-packed walkthrough of AI Foundry, how to deploy AI Agents and get your code running. Examples in Python and .NET
Demystifying Azure Service Principals and Managed Identities
Whenever Azure services need to work together, there are secrets involved, as well as service accounts. Azure offers several solutions to achieve this goal, being Service Principals and Managed Identities. But the use cases are sometimes confusing, to find out when to use what, what they do, and how to use them. That's exactly what you will learn in this session from Peter, Azure Technical Trainer at Microsoft, in this demo-packed presentation.
Cut Costs, Not Corners in Azure Monitor
If you don't need it, don't collect it. If you're going to collect it, don't keep it for longer than you have to. If you're going to keep it, at least store it in the cheapest place possible. It's easy to start collecting data with Azure Monitor, but if you just accept defaults, chances are that you're spending more on monitoring than you need to. We're going to walk through various strategies to lower your bill while still meeting your monitoring requirements. Some of these are core features of the product, while others are going to take some creative customizations.
Configuration Drift Strategies for Terraform
While Infrastructure as Code helps Operations teams taking control of their cloud deployments, it's inevitable to see configuration drift happening. In this Talk, Peter De Tender, Azure Technical Trainer at Microsoft Corp and 3-year Hashicorp Ambassador, will discuss several strategies to control and avoid configuration drift for your Azure deployments. As typical for Peter's sessions, this will be more live demo-oriented than slideware.
Continuously deploying Serverless Functions with Azure DevOps Pipelines
Function apps tend to be requiring continuous updates, as they typically have a short lifespan. What better deployment scenario than using Azure DevOps Pipelines for this? Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, passionate Azure Technical Trainer at Microsoft, on how to achieve a smooth CI/CD pipeline experience across different environments. And as usual in Peter's sessions, this will be live-demo-packed with the bare minimum of slides
Chaos Engineering with Azure OpenAI: Building the Unbreakable
In this session we will explore the transformative potential of combining Chaos Engineering with Azure OpenAI to create resilient, robust applications.
Building a PowerShell Copilot using Copilot Studio
Dive into the world of Copilot Studio and discover how you can build a customized AI copilot tailored to your PowerShell needs. This session is perfect for IT professionals, DevOps engineers, and system administrators eager to leverage AI to automate and streamline their workflows.
Built AI Applications they said!! they just didn't tell there were so many options
Any organizations is looking into building Generative AI applications, but they get lost in the multitude of options. Even within the Microsoft stack, you can start as a business user with Copilot Studio Lite, move up to Copilot Studio for more advanced scenarios, or pick several SDKs to develop applications with Microsoft Foundry in Azure as backend.
This session will guide you through the best of each option, clarifying the target audience and use cases fitting in each solution. By the end of the session, you'll have a clearer understanding which direction to go into, to build your AI-influenced applications. And as typical for Peter's sessions, this will be packed with live demos, with only a minimum of slides.
Building a Marvel heroes webapp using Blazor
Marvel has a ton of superheroes, and sometimes it's hard to find the ones you feel closely-related to. Sure you can connect to the Marvel website, but that requires being online all the time. Although it's available on planet Earth, who knows how we will connect to it from another Universe in the future. Wouldn't it be cool to have your Marvel Heroes database with you all the time, using a slick web app interface that works cross-device, cross-platform and allows for offline viewing? That's what I'm going to show you in a live developing session, how to interact with the Marvel API, pulling information into a custom-built .NET Blazor app
Building a blog website with Hugo and Azure DevOps for 5$ a month
Long gone is the time of spending big buckets of money on websites; several use cases exist (blog site, community web site, your moonlighting information webpage,…) what made WordPress so popular. But these also come with a cost. Wouldn’t it be cool to still offer the same functionality, but all this for less than $5 a month? Learn in this session from Peter, an Azure Business Program Manager within Microsoft, passionate Azure trainer and former Azure MVP, how to build a Hugo website, publish it into Azure Storage Accounts, and optimize it with Azure Front Door. But that's just the back-end right? So I will throw in some Azure DevOps magic, allowing you to actually publish your content in an automated devops way.
Bending Azure DevOps Pipelines like Reed Richards and The Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four came back from the cosmos with super powers. Imagine how amazing it would be if your DevOps team could do about the same... bending Azure DevOps pipelines like Reed Richards, building rock-solid source control like Ben Grimm, running flaming-hot CI/CD like Johny Storm or integrate some invisibility awesomeness as Susan Storm... In this session, Peter De Tender, Marvel fan who zapped himself from Belgium to Seattle, WA recently out of his Microsoft Technical Trainer role, will show you tons of tips & tricks on how to control your Azure DevOps Pipelines like a team of superheroes.
Azure loves Terraform loves Azure
In the Open Source world, Terraform is a well-known automation and configuration tool. Which got a broad community in the AWS world as well. Where Azure support in Terraform was always lacking behind, not anymore! Initially announced at MS Ignite in Orlando, it is wildly adopted in the Terraform communities and Azure communities, providing you a full spectrum of cool integrations to optimize your Azure deployments and configurations.
Azure Developer CLI - deploying end-to-end Azure environments, for non-developers
Infrastructure as code is amazing to deploy infrastructure in cloud, but that's only half the story, when you also need applications. DevOps pipelines might be too complex, or overkill. That's where AZD - Azure Developer CLI comes to the rescue, even/especially for non-developers. This session will be primarily demos, showing you how the Technical Trainers team within Microsoft is using it as customer zero, to provide one-cli(ck) demo deployments for their training deliveries.
Azure AI shouldn't be AI AI AI AI
It's easy to feel left out today, if you are not using AI solutions as a developer. But the world seems to forget it's not all that easy to pick up brand-new technologies, when you have to deal with traditional projects. That's where Azure AI comes to the rescue. It provides a multitude of capabilities, ranging from object recognition, document intelligence, text and speech as well as the new OpenAI Generative AI, all using the same concept, REST API calls to Azure AI services.
In this session, learn from Peter De Tender, Microsoft Technical Trainer from Seattle, WA, how you can integrate Azure AI into your traditional development language, and using all its powers to enrich your applications.
Azure AI Document Intelligence - OCR on steroids
In the late 1920s and into the 1930s, Emanuel Goldberg developed what he called a "Statistical Machine" for searching microfilm archives using an optical code recognition system, which evolved into an IBM OCR solution.
about 100 years after, OCR is transitioning into powerful document and text analysis capabilities, thanks to Azure AI Document Intelligence APIs.
Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Microsoft Technical Trainer from Redmond, WA - how to deploy your Azure AI service, how to set up your data model using custom labeling as well as prebuilt models, to analyze corporate documents such as invoices, passports, receipts and alike. And as typical in Peter's sessions, this will be demo-driven, with only a minimum of slideware.
Architecting Azure AI Services with security in mind
Everyone is deploying Azure AI Services, primarily driven by developers who get asked to make their apps GenAI inspired. All great, until the Security team shuts it all down, because it's not following security best practices. But what does that mean? Learn in this session from Peter De Tender, Lead Technical Trainer at Microsoft, what it takes to properly architect AI solutions in Azure. And keep your CISO friendship.
Architecting Azure AI Solutions beyond Azure AI Studio Playground
One of the most common scenarios you find online when searching for Azure AI examples, is how to deploy the service, set up a deployment model, and interact (test?) with it using the Azure AI Foundry Playground. But that’s the easy part… as a developer, you are tasked with integrating it “correctly” into your application stack. And that’s not all that different from using other packages and performing API integrations. However, where the complexity comes in, is everything around those AI Services and using them. How to set up security, how to integrate those APIs, how to manage credentials and so much more.
In this session, learn what it takes to properly architect an end-to-end, enterprise-ready complete Azure AI solution. Starting from Microsoft reference architectures, speaker will guide you through the different building blocks, as well as throwing in several live demos, to get you going in no time, in your own Azure environment.
Application Insights - Inside-Out
Running applications in Azure still requires monitoring, and is often seen as more complex than on-premises, as you don't (always) get access to the application-level logs you are customed to.
That's where Application Insights gives you all you need! No matter your development language, or Azure run-time environment, App Insights will give you out-of-the-box dashboard views, backed by raw data in Log Analytics. Read out statistics, performance, Failures, overall load and many more metrics.
Peter will guide you through an end-to-end demo scenario, allowing you to understand the power of AppInsights
Agentic DevOps: The Future of Automation
This session explores Agentic DevOps, where intelligent agents elevate software delivery by continuously adapting and optimising workflows in real time. It demonstrates how Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Microsoft Foundry can be combined to build self‑adjusting pipelines that respond dynamically to change.
You will discover practical patterns for integrating Foundry‑built agents into existing CI/CD environments to enhance developer productivity.
AMA with the DevOps/GitHub Content Developer
After having been an MTT for 6,5 years, I transitioned into the role of Dev/AI/DevOps Content Developer within WWL, with a focus on our DevOps/GitHub portfolio. I would like to use this session to share insights on the content creation/updating process, but even more so, would like to get your feedback about what works, what doesn't, what you would change if you were in this role,... to help with our content strategy for these courses for FY27. While not necessary, I'm targeting current AZ-400, linked APL courses (AZ-20xx) and GH-course trainers.
Azure is 100% High-Available... or is it?
While public cloud solutions like Azure are obviously built with a high availability in mind, it takes a bit more design effort to really get your workloads 100% high-available. And that's exactly what this session is about: learning how to elevate the uptime of your Azure IAAS and PAAS workloads, to go from the out-of-the-box default SLA's to an almost 100% SLA. Starting from Virtual Machines, Networking and Storage design best practices, Peter will jump over to Platform services and walk you through several architectural and services designs.
Azure DevOps, pipelines to bring cloud magic
Deploying an environment comes with many challenges, especially when you quickly need to set up your workload, but also capturing continuous changes, or providing different environments like dev/test, staging and production. Maybe even across on-premises and public cloud platforms. If you want to optimize this process end-to-end, that's where DevOps CI/CD comes in, an automated process, involving people, providing value to the business by releasing products. Learn from Peter De Tender, Business Program Manager at Microsoft, what Azure DevOps can do to bring some magic to your day-to-day deployments, whether sysadmin or developer.
Analyzing Azure DevOps auditing streams in your SIEM of choice
: Azure DevOps is the cornerstone of CI/CD Pipelines (amongst other DevOps capabilities…) for a lot of organizations that want to optimize workload build and release processes. In the growing domain of cyber-attacks, hackers are targeting the user’s identity far more than they try to break in through traditional network layers. SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management Tool) solutions allow for analyzing this data and providing reactive protection mechanisms, as well as analytical insights. Auditing Streams for Azure DevOps allow organizations to capture audit logs and have them analyzed by your trusted SIEM solution. Within Azure, the core services helping in providing this auditing stream are Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel and Azure EventGrid. But you are not limited to using Azure services for this, as it is perfectly doable to shift these auditing logs to external solutions like Splunk.
In this session, Peter De Tender, Azure Technical Trainer at Microsoft with a focus on Architecture and DevOps together with James Cook, Cloud and DevOps blogger with background experience in education and fintech will guide you through the core architectural design in Azure to establish Azure DevOps auditing, detailing the capabilities of Auditing Streams (currently in preview) and how it can be beneficial for your organization. And as typical in Peter’s sessions, this will be spiced up with compelling demos and room for Q&A.
ACR, ACI, ACS, AKS, DCK... aka the Container Alphabet Soup
The world is wild about Containers, and so is Azure! Where container support has been part of the Azure platform for almost 3 years now, based on the recent amount of questions I got on the topic, it seems most partners and customers are only looking at it now. Which comes with the related confusion in terminology and capabilities. And that's exactly what I will show you during my session: how to run Docker (DCK) containers in Azure, by using the different Azure Container solutions available. Starting from the basics, moving to more complex architectures and scenarios. And as usual in Peter's sessions, more live demos than PPTX-talk...
Achieving SRE (Site Resiliency Engineering) with Azure
We had Agile, Scrum and DevOps to optimize how to run our datacenters both on-premises and in public cloud. Are you ready for the next step, where it is not just about deploying and migrating workloads to cloud, but also running them in an efficient and healthy way. To do that, you need to have reliable tools and provide observability capabilities to your teams. Good news is that Azure offers all of that, and more. Learn in this session from Peter De Tender - Azure Technical Trainer with a passion for DevOps and SRE - about the fundamentals of Site Resiliency Engineering, what tools Azure has to offer from the architecting phase all the way to observability and everything in between. And as usual in Peter's sessions, this will be more live demos than PowerPoint view time.
DevSecOps as an approach to building and deploying secure applications by “shifting left”
You might have seen one of my previous sessions on (Azure) DevOps or know about pipelines already. Although pipelines are awesome, they often don’t have security integrated. And that’s exactly what this session will cover. Sometimes described as “shifting left”, it means organizations should try and integrate security as early in the devops process as possible. This session will cover different DevOps security capabilities like Microsoft Threat Modeling tool, integrating vulnerability code scanning of your source control across devops tools, how to securely store secrets in Azure KeyVault and reuse it in pipelines and integrating security into your container images.
As typical in Peter’s sessions, this will be mainly whiteboarding and demos, instead of flipping PowerPoint slides.
How .NET Blazor moved me from Infrastructure to Developer at age 47
While this is a technical session, It actually has quite some personal stories in there as well. Particularly, how, thanks to .NET Blazor, I managed to pick up development at age 47, having a 100% IT infrastructure and architecture background for +25 years.
This session covers the benefits of using Blazor as a framework, how to get started with some live demos, and eventually moving to more complex application scenarios such as integrating with Rest API's, using Entity Framework database connectivity and how to publish the app to Azure App Services
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