Northern Azure user group March 2025 Meetup

For our NAUG March meetup we will be hosted again by ECOM at their office in Manchester City Centre. This month we will be diving into the world of Infrastructure as code for our first session.

Session Details
Session 1
Elliott Leighton-Woodruff - Mastering the Basics: Terraform and Infrastructure as Code in Azure

Session goals:

• Understand the core principles of Infrastructure as Code and Terraform.
• Learn how to define, deploy, and manage Azure resources using Terraform.
• Explore real-world examples, troubleshooting tips, and best practices for scalable and reliable IaC.

A bit about Elliott

Elliott Leighton-Woodruff is a Principal Architect at Synextra, specialising in Azure solutions, especially for regulated industries like legal. He’s all about building smart, cloud-native solutions that make compliance easier, streamline operations, and help businesses get the most out of the cloud.

Session 2
Lewis Mckee - PowerShell for Azure DevOps: Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines

In this session Lewis will be taking us through Azure DevOps and the significance of CI/CD in modern software development looking at PowerShell, its benefits in DevOps, and its relevant modules.

He will then dive into the specific PowerShell cmdlets used for managing Azure DevOps resources with some technical demos and a walkthrough of setting up your environment and some best practice guidelines.

Agenda:
5:30 - 6:30 - Welcome & networking
6:30 - 7:15 - Elliott Leighton-Woodruff
7:15 - 7:45 - Food,drinks and networking
7:45 - 8:30 - Lewis Mckee
8:30-whenever - Drinks and networking

Location Details
Address:18 Lower Byrom St, Manchester M3 4AP.

ECOM are based in a renovated space called the Bonded Warehouse which sits on the same site as the Old-Granada studio tour.

The entrance to the bonded warehouse can be reached from Lower Byrom street just next to the Museum of Science and Industry, the building entrance is on the right hand side across from the crystal maze. Google and apple maps may attempt to direct you to the rear of the building, if in doubt use the what3words location and look for the Crystal Maze too.

what3words:///rounds.sadly.refers