Infrastructure as Code – Lessons learned from Dev to Ops

Have you ever had to re-write an entire template rapidly after discovering a flaw in production? Felt embarrassed to have bust a gut on a neat template update but realized you missed the point of the change request altogether? Have you ever struggled to come up to speed when reading someone else’s configuration management or infrastructure orchestration code? Maybe you’ve suffered from spaghetti-code in Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef or Puppet? How can we shortcut these pitfalls and leverage some of the practices that application developers have been honing for years? Find out in this session.

The key takeaways of this session are:

Learn tried and tested development techniques for ensuring high code quality.
Understand how to apply agile principles to IaC development.
Learn about testing frameworks for common Infrastructure as Code services.

Emma Button is an agile software delivery specialist with fifteen years of experience in building and deploying enterprise software – Java, C#, JavaScript and a smattering of Node and Go. In recent years, she has specialised in the cultural, technology, and process changes needed to grow high-performing software and operations teams responsible for building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed applications in the cloud. She lead R&D teams going through cultural change; inspiring team members to transition from traditional working methods, through agile and lean practices and into the DevOps mindset.