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Explore Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) concepts through an engaging 1 hour 13 minute conference talk that uses Minecraft as a creative teaching metaphor. Discover how IaC extends beyond cloud resources to encompass OS configuration, VM and container images, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and the workflows that connect them all. Learn how each layer aligns differently with platform engineering and application development teams. Walk through practical demonstrations starting with building VM images using Packer, contrasting them with Docker containers, and understanding how Terraform unifies OS-level configuration and infrastructure provisioning into cohesive workflows. Examine Kubernetes deployments, YAML manifests, and Helm charts while exploring how these tools shift responsibilities between different teams and why this distribution matters for organizational success. Experience real-world applications through GitHub Actions demonstrations including Packer image builds, Terraform pull-request workflows, and GitOps implementations for VM-based workloads. Visualize module composition concepts using Minecraft to understand how small, cohesive IaC modules can be assembled into scalable architectural patterns. Witness live terraform apply and terraform destroy commands executed on a Minecraft server to build and tear down a castle in real time, making abstract infrastructure concepts tangible and memorable.
