Azure Back to School 2025: Coding Landing Zone for IaC Development

Before you write a single line of Infrastructure as Code, you need the right environment—a coding landing zone that sets your team up for success. In this Azure Back to School 2025 contribution, we’ll walk through how to build a ready-to-code environment for IaC development that’s packed with best practices, tooling, and automation from day one.

You’ll learn how to set up a GitHub-based framework tailored for Bicep development, complete with integrated validation, security scanning, automated testing, and pipelines. This isn’t just theory—we’re baking in everything needed to enforce consistency, collaboration, and governance, so any engineer can hit the ground running and start delivering production-grade infrastructure code.

Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to professionalize your current setup, this guide will help you build your own coding landing zone and scale your IaC workflows with confidence.

All code and configurations will be freely available to help you implement what you learn immediately.

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1. Coding Landing Zone for IaC Development BUILD YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE CODE-READY ENVIRONMENT
2. About me  principal solution architect @ Cegal  conferences, ACP, communities (ALZ, Bicep, AVM, Terraform in Azure)  co-organizer of Azure User Group Norway and Infrastructure as Code User Group Oslo  GitHub | LinkedIn | Sessionize | SpeakerDeck | X : pazdedav handle  Blog: azurescholar.cloud
3. Agenda  Overview of Coding Landing Zone  Code walkthrough  IaC LZ + az-bootstrap: better together  Demo
4. Overview
5. Code walkthrough
6. az-bootstrap  PowerShell module  Bootstrap your GitHub environment from a template  https://github.com/kewalaka/az-bootstrap  Stu Mace (MVP from NZ)
7. Demo time