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Digital Sovereignty and Lock-In Risk

  • Understanding what digital sovereignty entails in enterprise platform strategy.
  • Identifying common sources of hyperscaler lock-in across infrastructure, data, and managed services.
  • Exploring how open source and open standards facilitate control, portability, and resilience.

Principles of Portable Platform Design

  • Key characteristics defining a portable platform.
  • Strategies for ensuring consistent deployment across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments.
  • Methods to reduce dependence on provider-specific services and interfaces.

Kubernetes and Containers in a Portable Architecture

  • How containers enhance workload consistency across diverse environments.
  • The pivotal role of Kubernetes in standardizing application deployment and operations.
  • Practical considerations for selecting open-source components around Kubernetes.

Open-Source Tooling for Delivery and Operations

  • Utilizing infrastructure as code and configuration management to create repeatable environments.
  • Implementing CI/CD and GitOps approaches for controlled platform delivery.
  • Establishing observability, logging, and monitoring using open-source tools.

Governance, Security, and Compliance

  • Adopting governance practices suitable for sovereign platform implementations.
  • Addressing security, policy, and software supply chain visibility requirements.
  • Balancing regulatory mandates, operational needs, and platform engineering objectives.

Adoption Roadmap and Next Steps

  • Assessing current lock-in risks and identifying portability gaps.
  • Defining a realistic target architecture and prioritizing migration efforts.
  • Formulating an action plan addressing teams, tooling, governance, and phased adoption strategies.

Requirements

  • Foundational knowledge of cloud computing, containers, and enterprise IT concepts.
  • Some practical experience with software platforms, infrastructure, or application delivery within an organizational context.
  • Familiarity with technical operations or technology planning in a business setting.

Audience

  • IT architects and platform engineers.
  • Cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps managers.
  • Technology leaders, enterprise architects, and digital transformation teams.
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