PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2026

So you've automated the building of your Chocolatey Packages, but you're still manually making sure they're installing correctly across your fleet? Enter Test Kitchen, giving you the ability to run tests against all of the system configurations in your fleet.

In this talk, we'll explore what Test Kitchen is, and go through setting it up to run a suite of tests so you can confidently release your packages knowing that it'll work on all of your systems.

Infrastructure as Code isn’t optional anymore—it’s the modern foundation for delivering consistent, secure, and repeatable Azure environments. However, many teams struggle to get past the basics, defining brittle templates or using unsafe state management practices.

This session is a practical introduction to Terraform on Azure, built for engineers who want to move from ClickOps and basic deployment scripts to a maintainable setup that can work in production. We’ll cover:

o Authoring core HCL: providers, resources, variables, and tfvars
o Structuring reusable modules with naming, tagging, and inputs/outputs that scale
o Managing state the safe way with Azure Storage, locks, and environment isolation (dev/test/prod)
o Automating deployments in a simple CI pipeline with OIDC authentication—no secrets in your YAML

Through live demos, you’ll see a small Azure footprint (resource group, VNet, subnets, Key Vault) provisioned and promoted through a pipeline with approvals.

By the end, you’ll understand the “why” behind Infrastructure as Code and leave with patterns you can copy, adapt, and operationalize in your own Azure environment.

In this session, we'll take a dive into GitHub actions and see how you are use them to build, test and publish PowerShell modules. We'll look at different actions, run tests and publish reports, host artifacts, produce releases and use secrets to publish to the PowerShell Gallery.

Everyone is doing infrastructure as code, using Terraform or other scripts. But, we can take it a step further and do Infrastructure from code - auto-analyzing the code and creating the needed cloud infrastructure (maybe with some annotational help). In this talk I shall review the current status of Infrastructure From Code, available tools, AI assistance, demonstrate it and try to convince you that your life will be much easier - NoOps is finally here.

Platform Engineering is no longer just a buzzword—it’s a strategic advantage. But what does it really take to build a platform that developers actually want to use? In this 90-minute, high-energy workshop, we’ll go beyond theory and roll up our sleeves to engineer a platform engineering stack from the ground up—live, in real time.We’ll start by defining what makes a platform for engineers, by engineers, exploring how great platforms reduce friction, enable self-service, and scale without becoming a bottleneck. Then, we’ll walk through designing, building, and integrating the core capabilities your developers need: automated environment provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, observability, secrets management, and developer-friendly workflows.Whether you’re coming from a PowerShell automation background, deep in the trenches of DevOps, or just platform-curious, you’ll leave with not only a working reference implementation but also the design patterns and decision frameworks to tailor it to your own organization.Expect live demos, real tools, and practical patterns—plus a few war stories about what happens when platform engineering goes wrong (and how to avoid it). You’ll walk away with the confidence and the code to make platform engineering work for your engineers, not against them.