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Digital Sovereignty and Lock-In Risk

  • Understanding the meaning of digital sovereignty within enterprise platform strategy
  • Common origins of hyperscaler lock-in in infrastructure, data, and managed services
  • How open source and open standards facilitate control, portability, and resilience

Principles of Portable Platform Design

  • Key characteristics of a portable platform
  • Designing for consistent deployment across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments
  • Minimizing dependence on provider-specific services and interfaces

Kubernetes and Containers in a Portable Architecture

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

Open-Source Tooling for Delivery and Operations

  • Infrastructure as code and configuration management for creating repeatable environments
  • CI/CD and GitOps methodologies for controlled platform delivery
  • Achieving observability, logging, and monitoring through open-source tools

Governance, Security, and Compliance

  • Governance practices essential for sovereign platform adoption
  • Considerations regarding security, policy, and software supply chain visibility
  • Balancing regulatory requirements, operational needs, and platform engineering goals

Adoption Roadmap and Next Steps

  • Evaluating current lock-in risks and identifying portability gaps
  • Defining a realistic target architecture and migration priorities
  • Developing an action plan covering teams, tooling, governance, and phased adoption strategies

Requirements

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

Audience

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