Friday Hacks #280, September 12: Automating AKS Deployments
Posted on by Prakamya Singh
Date/Time: Friday, September 12 at 7:00pm SGT
Venue: Seminar Room 12, COM3-01-21, NUS
Sign-up Link: Sign-up here
Food 🍕 and Drinks 🧋 will be served!
1) Building a Compiler for a Presentation AI Assistant
AI coding assistants aren’t magic. Explore a Google Slides AI that addresses the fundamental mismatch between Google’s imperative API and declarative form.
Speaker Profile 🎙
Li Kai is currently having fun building stuff as an indie hacker. He is an alumnus of the NUS Hackers Coreteam and an NUSMods contributor.
2) Automating AKS Deployments on Azure with Terraform: From Infrastructure to Workload
Learn how to streamline Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provisioning and workload deployment with Terraform. This session walks through defining AKS infrastructure as code, connecting to Azure Container Registry, and deploying a sample application with auto-scaling—all wrapped in a simple, repeatable workflow. Through a hands-on demo, you’ll learn how to: 1 Use Terraform to provision AKS and supporting Azure resources. 2 Automate container image access via Azure Container Registry (ACR). 3 Deploy and scale workloads with Kubernetes manifests and Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. 4 Integrate everything into a simple CI/CD workflow for repeatable delivery.
Speaker Profile 🎙️
Ritesh Hegde is a Microsoft MVP (Azure) and HashiCorp Ambassador with over 18 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering. He leads community initiatives in Singapore, including HashiCorp User Group and Azure Community Singapore, and regularly speaks at global conferences and meetups. Passionate about Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and cloud-native solutions, Ritesh helps teams simplify cloud adoption through automation and practical demos.