Have you been deploying your Azure databases and all connected resources through the portal?
Are you fed-up with clicking, weird resource naming and mostly, with having to deal with changes manually?

If you are working in Azure and you have anything to do with data, security and the infrastructure, this session is for you!

Azure Infrastructure as Code offers a plethora of possibilities, but the first time I checked it out, all I saw were Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Hard to read, harder to write. They gave me headaches. It seems I wasn't the only one with that problem, because there are excellent tools to help you out! My favourite, and the one I'm using in this session is Terraform.

Now why is this presenter talking about this? I've deployed a number of customer environments with this language. Whenever there's a security update, like a new policy for example, I can deploy this to all customers in minutes. I'll only have to code this once and can easily deliver it many times, saving them time and money. Resources we can spend in other areas like ETL, ELT etc.

During the session, I'll demonstrate the basics of a data deployment, following the spirit of the Microsoft Well Architected Framework. I'll show you my way of working, the structure and and the end result. As securing resources and data is paramount in any cloud solution, it'll have plenty of attention in this session as well.
There is no need to try and photograph what's happening on screen, all the scripts will be available after the session.

This session is aimed at people who are not only the database admin in a company but also (partially) responsible for the cloud infrastructure. Or people who are mainly responsible for the cloud infrastructure and who want to understand what the data people are doing.

To give this session a fair chance, 50 minutes is he minimum. Without the live demos, 20 -30 minutes is possible, but not recommended. People won't need any technical stuff, I'll need either a good internet connection or good 4G reception to show the demo.