Columbus Pulumi User Group

As organizations scale their cloud operations, managing infrastructure through manual console deployments becomes increasingly risky and time-consuming. This workshop bridges the gap between click-ops and modern infrastructure automation, providing both technical guidance and business context for adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Participants will learn how platform engineering practices can accelerate delivery while improving reliability and security.

Speakers:

• Josh Kodroff, Principal Solutions Architect, Pulumi

Join us to learn:

• Practical strategies for transitioning existing console-created resources to code
• How to establish repeatable deployment patterns and build a foundation for scalable infrastructure management
• How to take resources created manually in the console and bring them under IaC automation

Organizations often find themselves constrained by domain-specific languages when managing cloud infrastructure, leading to complex workarounds and maintenance challenges. This workshop demonstrates how transitioning to a general-purpose programming language can transform your infrastructure management, making common tasks more intuitive and maintainable.

Speakers:

• Josh Kodroff, Principal Solutions Architect, Pulumi

Join us to learn:

• The advantages of using general-purpose languages like TypeScript vs DSL, like HCL
• How to introduce Pulumi IaC and either coexist with or convert your existing Terraform code
• Advanced features for infrastructure automation and robust, secure, scalable IaC

For organizations already using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), the next crucial step is establishing reliable, secure deployment pipelines. This workshop bridges the gap between basic IaC adoption and production-grade infrastructure automation.

You’ll learn to transform manual or partially automated infrastructure processes into fully automated, secure delivery pipelines. Hands-on demos using Pulumi and GitHub Actions will teach you how to implement enterprise-grade practices, including repeatable deployments of infrastructure pipelines, automated drift detection, and secure credential handling.

Speakers:

• Rob Smith, Solutions Architect, Pulumi

Join us to learn:

• Best practices for automating infrastructure delivery with IaC
• How to create technically sound, secure IaC pipelines that reduce secret sprawl and improve your organization's security posture
• How to enable drift detection for your infrastructure to ensure that your cloud resources stay auto

As organizations scale their cloud infrastructure, maintaining security and compliance becomes increasingly complex. This workshop explores how Policy as Code (PaC) transforms traditional manual compliance processes into automated, version-controlled, and programmatically enforced guardrails.

Participants will learn how to implement effective cloud governance strategies using modern PaC approaches, including writing custom policies, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, and establishing automated enforcement mechanisms.

Speakers:

• James Connell, Sr. Solutions Architect, Pulumi

Join us to learn how to:

• Transform compliance requirements into programmatic rules that can be version-controlled and automatically enforced
• Integrate policy enforcement into developer workflows and CI/CD pipelines to catch violations early in the development lifecycle and ensure your cloud environments stay in compliance
• Manage evolving security and compliance requirements against infrastructure at scale