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 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
DevOps with GitHub
Discover how GitHub's powerful DevOps capabilities can transform your development process from code to deployment. This session delves into practical strategies for leveraging GitHub to streamline application development, focusing on CI/CD pipelines, automated security scans, and dependency management with tools such as GitHub Actions and Dependabot.
Through a simple FastAPI example, learn to configure workflows that automate secure cloud deployments with reliability and efficiency. Attendees will gain actionable insights to implement GitHub-powered DevOps practices that reduce complexity and boost productivity.
Join us to explore how GitHub enables developers to build, test, and deploy with confidence and speed at every step.
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