Conferences on Thorsten Hans

European Azure Conference 2020

Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I am thrilled to join the announcement of the European Azure Conference 2020 (EAC20). While Microsoft just finished celebrating the 10th birthday of Azure, we want to add another reason to be excited about Azure.

From 2nd till 4th of June 2020, Azure enthusiasts from all over the world will meet in beautiful Nice (France) to celebrate the first iteration of this independent and dedicated Azure conference in Europe.

During the three-day event, we will deliver outstanding Keynotes, 8 tutorials, and more than 70 sessions covering all areas of Microsoft Azure.

API Summit - IaC for everyone with Terraform

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This week, API Summit 2019 took place in Berlin. I was invited to demonstrate some Infrastructure as Code (IaC) goodness and talk about Terraform.

During my half-day tutorial, I explained how to create multi-cloud infrastructures for Azure and AWS using HashiCorp Terraform. Additionally, we used git flow to establish a proper collaboration workflow.

All samples are available on GitHub .

Additionally, you can cycle through the slide-deck right here .

ESPC 2019 - Interview

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Fabian Williams (fellow MVP and good friend of mine) interviewed me during European SharePoint, Office365 and Azure Conference (ESPC19) . We had a great conversation about different topics which I focus on these days. Basically, we talked about

Microsoft Azure
Infrastructure as Code
Engagement in the developer community
How to participate and contribute to the community

Additionally, we talked about how ESPC has evolved over time and how it addresses latest and greatest technology trends. The interview was filmed and is available for free, in full length on YouTube.

ESPC 2019 - Code your Azure with Terraform

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This week European SharePoint and Azure Conference (ESPC19) takes place in Prague. I had the chance to give a talk on Terraform as part of the Azure track.

My talk was all about adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in the Azure space.

During the talk we built three different environments (development, staging and production) with slightly different configuration. If you want to look at the final solution, checkout the demo-code on GitHub .