[HYBRID] Getting started with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation

We are happy to announce Waldemar and Michael (Thoughtworks) with their talk.

It will be a hybrid meetup. So pls answer during RSVP if you plan to be on-site. That'll help us a lot with planning the snacks, etc. 🙏
The link with the video call will be announced on the meetup day.

Agenda 📝:
* 1800: doors open + networking, drinks, snacks
* 1900: starting the talk
* afterwards: networking until around 2130

We are looking forward to meet you.

Abstract:
Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi allow developers to describe their (cloud) infrastructure in code. Software development teams use them nowadays to manage their cloud resources. Still we see many developer teams running those tools outside of a CI/CD pipeline, which causes lots of headaches if things go wrong.

This talk focuses on some considerations that one should make when running infrastructure code inside a pipeline. It will provide a checklist to make sure that your infrastructure code is ready to be automatically deployed. We will also dive into topics like proper development workflows for infrastructure code and disaster recovery.

The target group of the presentation are software developers who already use infrastructure-as-code tools and now want to take the next steps towards automation.

Bio Waldemar:
Waldemar is an Infrastructure Consultant at Thoughtworks who spends his weekends at the office to get free pizza. He's an advocate for developer platforms and knows Kubernetes better than most people know the back of their hand.

Bio Michael:
Michael's journey into infrastructure management started with involuntarily destroying a carefully hand-crafted Jenkins server many years ago. Many more accidents followed. Ever since then he realised that for him, automation and testing of infrastructure provisioning, is the only way out of constantly breaking stuff. He is now happily sharing his experience as an infrastructure consultant at Thoughtworks.