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Monday, April 13
 

10:30am PDT

Using Pester with Test Kitchen to thoroughly test your Chocolatey Packages
Monday April 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am PDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Cory Knox

Cory Knox

Test Kitchen Sous Chef, Chocolatey Software


Monday April 13, 2026 10:30am - 11:15am PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 407 11100 Northeast 6th Street, Bellevue, WA, USA

1:00pm PDT

Terraform 101: Building Repeatable, Secure Azure Infrastructure
Monday April 13, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Blake Cherry

Blake Cherry

Principal in Cybersecurity & Enterprise Technology, West Monroe
Blake is a Principal in West Monroe's Technology practice, operating out of Chicago, IL. Known for accelerating the delivery of best practice infrastructure by leveraging infrastructure as code, his expertise lies in Azure, Microsoft 365, and Infrastructure Automation, with a specialized... Read More →
avatar for Danny Stutz

Danny Stutz

Cybersecurity & Enterprise IT Architect, West Monroe
I am passionate about technology, learning new things, and working with computers! I love PowerShell and any automation tools I can use to help streamline my work and personal projects I work on. I specialize in Microsoft 365, Entra ID (Azure AD), AD, AWS, Azure and other cloud platforms... Read More →
Monday April 13, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 406 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
 
Tuesday, April 14
 

10:45am PDT

GitHub Actions for Fun and Profit
Tuesday April 14, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am PDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Adam Driscoll

Adam Driscoll

Founder, Ironman Software, LLC
Adam Driscoll is a software architect, business owner and a Cloud and Datacenter MVP based out of Hailey, ID, USA. He develops and architects threat analytic solutions for STEALTHbits Technologies during the day and runs his own PowerShell tooling business by night. He is a published author, open-source contributor and speaker... Read More →
Tuesday April 14, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 407 11100 Northeast 6th Street, Bellevue, WA, USA
 
Wednesday, April 15
 

10:45am PDT

NoOps is finally here - Infrastructure FROM code
Wednesday April 15, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am PDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Dan Erez

Dan Erez

Software Architect
Wednesday April 15, 2026 10:45am - 11:30am PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 407 11100 Northeast 6th Street, Bellevue, WA, USA
 
Thursday, April 16
 

10:30am PDT

Engineering Platforms for Engineers who Engineer Platforms
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT
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.
Speakers
avatar for Ryan Coates

Ryan Coates

Developer, Operator, Architect, Developer, Operator, Architect
Ryan has worked in IT since he was a teenager and has spent most of his 25+ year career as an operator and systems architect. Evolving with the times, Ryan has followed DevOps culture and has become more equally aligned with both operations and developer teams and is currently an... Read More →
Thursday April 16, 2026 10:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Meydenbauer Center - Room 406 11100 NE 6th St, Bellevue, WA 98004, USA
 
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