2026-09-04 –, Workshop Room - CZ 110
The fundamental building block of modern infrastructure deployments is a strong basis of codification.
In this workshop, Kerim and Patrick will take you from Zero to Managed with HashiCorp Terraform and the GitHub Provider.
Attendees can expect to learn:
- What Infrastructure as Code is
- How to manage GitHub with Terraform
- How to safely inject credentials into the process
The fundamental building block of modern infrastructure deployments is a strong basis of codification.
In this hands-on workshop, geared towards operations engineers (DevOps, SRE, Platform), Kerim Satirli and Patrick Koch will take you from Zero to Managed with HashiCorp Terraform and the GitHub Provider for Terraform.
From understanding Terraform's core workflow to deploying and configuring repositories and more, this workshop is jam-packed with all the skills and techniques needed to effectively manage GitHub Organizations and all child resources.
Attendees can expect to learn:
- What Infrastructure as Code is
- How to manage GitHub with Terraform
- How to safely inject credentials into the process
Attendees will get access to a full environment to build along.
Kerim is a senior developer advocate at IBM, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and orchestration workflows.
Before he joined IBM, Kerim worked on Industrial IoT for the Amsterdam airport and helped museums bring more of their collections online.
Patrick Koch is a DevOps engineer, blogger, co-organizer of the MS Developer User Group Graz, Azure Hero, and Lecturer who enjoys automating everything. His interest in DevOps began when he was studying software development at the Technical University of Graz. At the time, he also contributed to a non-profit Free and Open Source Software project. Since 2014, he has been in charge of his department's CICD/Cloud/Container/Kubernetes topics. For several years, he has maintained his own blog about DevOps on Azure and has given lectures/workshops at international conferences.