After hosting a successful 3-day event at the Microsoft Auckland offices, The Reactor Sydney has teamed up with some great presenters from all over New Zealand. Over the next 5 weeks our MVPS will bring to you content from a wide range of expertise, delivered to you livestreamed and on demand.

Your Speaker
Shahid Iqbal is the Principal Platform Architect at Auror in Auckland, New Zealand.

He is a hands on cloud architect implementing modern platforms predominantly in Azure focusing on PaaS and Cloud Native approaches to solving modern business and software problems.
With an extensive background in software development, devops and cloud architecture he brings these principles to play to help teams to deploy and run their software in the most efficient and scalable way the modern cloud platforms offer.

Shahid is also frequent speaker at both international conferences and local meetups, runs workshops on Cloud Native technologies, and is a co-organizer of the Auckland Azure Meetup

When he's not working he's likely to be talking about cars, photography or gadgets.

Event Description:
When it comes to deploying infrastructure, especially in the cloud, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is generally considered a good practice, to create these infrastructure as code templates you have a variety of choices, ranging from the native Cloud provider templating language(s) to a variety of 3rd party options.

This session will compare the common options for creating and deploying Cloud infrastructure, we'll discuss the pros and cons of these approaches before focusing on one of the 3rd party options - Pulumi.

Pulumi allows us to use popular modern programming languages to create our infrastructure, this can be a huge benefit if you want to support more complex deployments or simply want to empower your development teams to manage their own infrastructure.

We'll cover a range of topics including:

• How to provision resources
• Where and why Pulumi can be more powerful than the other options
• Discuss drawbacks and limitations.

Content Level: beginner

Who is it aimed at? Architects, DevOps, Developers

Why should you attend? Learn how to use general purpose programming languages with Pulumi to manage your infrastructure, using tools and workflows familiar to all developers.