Taking the blues out of Azure: Journey to a Well Run Cloud

Lessons learned from 15 years of helping developers and organizations learn about and adopt the public cloud, including top tips, best practices and fatal flaws to see how you can make your journey better. An application is an idea that has code, data and infrastructure, and choosing whether to build a conveyor belt or to put up guard rails along the path is important in maintaining velocity to the cloud. In this session, we explore the tools and patterns available in Azure for establishing conventions for resource consistency like naming and organizing resources, for managing infrastructure as code, including templating technologies like ARM, Bicep and Terraform. We look at automation of developer workflow with tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, that you can use to ensure your cloud journey is predictable, secure and successful