Date and Time : September 17 | 08:30 PM GMT+5:30
Mastering Cloud DevSecOps: Hands-On Workshop with HCP Terraform, Cortex Cloud, and Google Cloud Platform
In today’s fast-evolving cloud landscape, securing your infrastructure and applications from the start is not just a best practice—it’s a necessity. The convergence of development, security, and operations—known as DevSecOps—empowers teams to build, deploy, and manage cloud resources with security at the core. To help practitioners gain practical skills in this critical domain, an exciting two-hour Cloud DevSecOps Workshop is scheduled for September 17, 2025, featuring experts from HashiCorp, Palo Alto Networks, and Google Cloud.
This immersive workshop is designed to give hands-on experience in automating cloud security by combining HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Terraform, Cortex Cloud’s application security tools, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) capabilities. Below is an in-depth look at what makes this workshop invaluable for cloud engineers, security professionals, and DevOps practitioners.
Workshop Highlights
The workshop is split into two key parts, offering experiential learning alongside expert demos:
Part I: Hands-On Terraform IaC Security with Checkov
- DevSecOps and Terraform Overview: Understand how infrastructure as code (IaC) shapes cloud infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, HashiCorp’s powerful tool for defining and automating cloud resources declaratively. Learn why securing your Terraform code early is vital to prevent misconfigurations that can expose your environment to risk.
- Using Checkov for Security Scanning: Checkov, an open-source static code analysis tool acquired by Palo Alto Networks, specializes in scanning Terraform files to detect security misconfigurations before deployment. This “shift-left” approach ensures vulnerabilities such as open network ports, overprivileged roles, or unencrypted storage are caught and fixed early.
- Setting Up Secure CI/CD Pipelines: Gain practical knowledge in integrating security scans into your CI/CD workflow using GitHub Actions and HCP Terraform. Automating this process enforces policy compliance and security checks seamlessly within your cloud release cycles, reducing manual errors and accelerating delivery.
Part II: Application Security with Cortex Cloud
- Automated Code Fixes and IDE Integration: Witness how Cortex Cloud elevates application security by providing inline remediation alerts and automated fixes directly in popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and version control systems (VCS) like GitHub. This reduces developer burden and expedites vulnerability resolution.
- HCP Terraform Run Task Integration: Explore how Cortex Cloud’s security posture management integrates with HCP Terraform run tasks, embedding security policies into the infrastructure provisioning pipeline and helping teams deploy compliant cloud infrastructure effortlessly.
Why Cloud DevSecOps Matters
DevSecOps integrates security earlier and more continuously into the software and infrastructure lifecycle—from coding to deployment and runtime. This approach helps organizations:
- Prevent Security Incidents: By catching misconfigurations and vulnerabilities early, costly breaches and compliance violations can be avoided.
- Automate Security Checks: Tools like Checkov simplify implementing security policies within IaC, enabling scalable governance without slowing down development pipelines.
- Improve Collaboration: Embedding security workflows within developer tools and CI/CD pipelines fosters a culture of shared responsibility between dev, security, and ops teams.
- Increase Velocity and Confidence: Automated security processes reduce blockers, empower developers with clear workflows, and enable frequent secure deployments.
Tools and Technologies Explored
Checkov: Infrastructure as Code Security
Created by Bridgecrew and integrated into Palo Alto Networks, Checkov is essential in auditing Terraform configurations to detect risky setups like open security groups, exposed credentials, or improper encryption. Checkov’s CI/CD integration enables automated scans, policy enforcement, and generates comprehensive reports, making security a continuous part of infrastructure deployment.
Cortex Cloud: Application Security Posture Management
Palo Alto Networks’ Cortex Cloud ASPM shifts application security from reactive monitoring to proactive prevention by integrating risk insight directly into developer workflows. It uses AI and runtime data to prioritize genuine risks over noise, automates remediation processes, and consolidates visibility across code repositories and cloud environments. The integration with HCP Terraform ensures security policies are enforced during provisioning.
HCP Terraform and Google Cloud Platform
HashiCorp’s HCP Terraform enables teams to manage infrastructure as code with workspaces that orchestrate cloud service provisioning. GCP’s robust cloud environment, combined with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, allows dynamic, secure, and repeatable deployment of resources such as networks, compute instances, and firewall configurations. The workshop uses Qwiklabs to deliver hands-on GCP experience.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is ideal for cloud engineers, DevOps practitioners, security professionals, and anyone eager to deepen their skills in automating secure cloud infrastructure and application delivery. A basic understanding of Git, GCP concepts (IAM, regions, CLI), and CI/CD principles will help participants get the most from the hands-on sessions.
Final Thoughts
By joining the Cloud DevSecOps Workshop with HCP Terraform, Cortex Cloud, and GCP, attendees will gain:
- Practical expertise scanning and fixing Terraform IaC security issues with Checkov.
- Experience automating secure cloud deployments through CI/CD pipelines.
- Insight into applying modern application security practices powered by Cortex Cloud.
- Enhanced ability to integrate security seamlessly into cloud development and operations workflows.
This workshop represents a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools from leading cloud security thinkers and build a strong foundation in cloud-native DevSecOps.
Get ready to transform your approach to cloud security and build safer, more resilient cloud applications and infrastructure!
For registration and more information, check the official event page on HashiCorp
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