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Digital Sovereignty and Lock-In Risk

  • Understanding the significance of digital sovereignty in enterprise platform strategy.
  • Identifying common sources of hyperscaler lock-in in 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 reliance 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 operational processes.
  • Practical considerations when selecting open-source components surrounding Kubernetes.

Open-Source Tooling for Delivery and Operations

  • Infrastructure as code and configuration management techniques for establishing repeatable environments.
  • CI/CD and GitOps methodologies for controlled platform delivery.
  • Leveraging open-source tools for observability, logging, and monitoring.

Governance, Security, and Compliance

  • Best practices for governance during the adoption of sovereign platforms.
  • Considerations regarding security, policy enforcement, and software supply chain visibility.
  • Striking a balance between 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 prioritizing migration efforts.
  • Developing an action plan encompassing teams, tooling, governance, and phased adoption strategies.

Requirements

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

Audience

  • IT architects and platform engineers.
  • Managers of cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps teams.
  • Technology leaders, enterprise architects, and digital transformation teams.
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