Terraform at Scale: Building Smart IaC Pipelines with Terratest, REGO & Atlantis

We're excited to announce our upcoming meetup on Tuesday, June 24th!

This session will feature two engaging topics delivered by our guest speakers:

Topics

1. Terraform at Scale: Building Smart IaC Pipelines with Terratest, REGO
2. Atlantis - Terraform Workflows with Ease

Audience:
Cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, and tech enthusiasts (Beginner to Intermediate)

What You’ll Learn Today

• What is Terraform?
• Best practices for organizing terraform IaC codebases for clarity, reusability and scale.
• Module design and automated testing using tools like Terratest
• How to Manage Infrastructure Drift?
• Automating Policy Enforcement with REGO
• Common Challenges and How to Address Them
• Demo: Code to Cloud Deployment Flow
• Atlantis: Terraform Pull Request Automation

Speakers:

• James Ickes - Technical Architect at Mary Kay Global
• Chase Freeman - Cloud Security at Mary Kay Inc.
• Poojitha A S - Service Reliability Engineer, Amadeus Labs

Speaker Bio

James Ickes
James has spent 20 years in IT, with the last 10 deeply rooted in cloud architecture and strategy. He leads a team of architects focused on empowering teams—helping them uncover cloud cost savings, adopt Infrastructure as Code practices like Terraform, and raise the bar on operational excellence.

Chase Freeman
Chase brings over a decade of experience in cloud security, with the past six years focused on cloud architecture, Terraform GitOps, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud strategies. He’s known for uniting cross-functional teams to deliver complex migrations and infrastructure transformations, all while mentoring others along the way.

Poojitha A S
A DevOps practitioner and cloud automation enthusiast with 9 years of industry experience at companies like Amadeus and CGI. Poojitha is passionate about simplifying technology and building scalable solutions. She’s on a mission to empower engineers with tools that promote peace of mind—not production chaos.

Schedule

• 6:30 - 6:45 - Social / Club Business
• 6:45 - 8:10 - Terraform at Scale: Building Smart IaC Pipelines with Terratest, REGO
• 8:10 - 8:25 - Atlantis - Terraform Workflows with Ease
• 8.25 - 8.30 - Social/Wrap-up