Are you still managing your Azure infrastructure through the portal? It’s time to shift from ClickOps to GitOps and embrace Infrastructure as Code for scalable, secure, and collaborative cloud operations. It's quite easy to start from scratch (greenfield) but how about that existing environment (brownfiled)?

In this demo-heavy session, we’ll walk through how to reverse-engineer an existing Azure environment into a fully code-first setup by using a multi-stage process that involves AI-powered code refactoring with GitHub Copilot, ensuring best practices, leveraging Azure Verified Modules as building blocks, and boosting team productivity by using reusable GitHub repo templates and workflows with validation, security scanning, etc. As an important step, we will harden the environment to prevent configuration drifts and promote traceability and governance controls both in Azure and your coding environment.

Whether you’re a cloud engineer or platform architect, this session will leave you with practical examples, tips, and a repeatable process to bring your infrastructure under version control and automated deployments.

The entire process will be demonstrated using Bicep and GitHub, but this knowledge could be transferable to other DSLs and collaboration platforms.

All code, templates, and workflows demonstrated will be shared with attendees, so you can start applying what you’ve seen as soon as you leave the room.