Name: Terraform at Scale: Building Smart IaC Pipelines with Terratest, REGO & Atlantis
Start: 2025-06-24T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-24T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Improving

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

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