Kill the slack queue: Governed cloud self-service with Google Project Factory

Platform teams are stuck in the middle. Developers want instant, self-service cloud environments. Security and ops want audit trails, policy gates, and no surprises. The result is usually a Slack queue, a pile of brittle scripts, or both.

In this hands-on workshop, we'll break down the engineering patterns that turn raw infrastructure modules into a governed, one-click developer experience using Google Project Factory as our working example. You'll get hands-on with how module versioning, workflow orchestration, and MCP Server integrations come together to eliminate toil without sacrificing control.

We'll walk through how to wrap an open-source IaC module in a repeatable workflow, enforce policy and approval gates at the right layer, and connect your infrastructure runs to the rest of your platform toolchain. You'll leave with a clear pattern you can apply to your own stack whether you're standardizing cloud projects, databases, or anything else your developers are waiting on... Because fast and safe shouldn't be a tradeoff.