Creating Cloud Infrastructure with C# and Pulumi | March STL User Group

Pulumi is a modern infrastructure as code platform that allows you to use familiar programming languages like C# to build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure. This enables you to quickly set up cloud environments and leverage software best practices you are already familiar with.
In this talk, we will cover:
- The benefits of infrastructure as code
- What Pulumi is how it differs from alternative tools
- Walkthrough getting a Pulumi environment setup using C# and Azure
- General overview and demo of major Pulumi concepts
- Integrating Pulumi with a CI/CD system

In the end, you should have everything you need to get started on your journey into using Pulumi and C# to programmatically manage Azure resources.

Jake is an Enterprise Architect at World Wide Technology. He has spent his career architecting sophisticated, pragmatic software systems and finding ways to make himself and his team better. He is a generalist with an emphasis on cloud architecture, web development, and DevOps. He has also won several coffee mugs as the world's greatest dad and is training to become a very mediocre middle-distance jogger.