Open Source for Digital Sovereignty: Building Portable Platforms Beyond Hyperscaler Lock-In Training Course
Open Source for Digital Sovereignty: Building Portable Platforms Beyond Hyperscaler Lock-In is a practical course on using open standards, Kubernetes, and open-source tooling to reduce vendor dependence and build portable platforms.
This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals and technology decision-makers who wish to use open-source platforms and open standards to design portable, resilient, and sovereign software environments.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Explain digital sovereignty and the role of open source in reducing hyperscaler lock-in.
- Identify platform design choices that improve portability across cloud and on-premise environments.
- Evaluate Kubernetes, containers, and supporting open-source tools for portable platform delivery.
- Create practical next steps for adopting open standards, governance, and sovereignty-focused platform practices.
Format of the Course
- Interactive lecture and discussion.
- Guided exercises and practical analysis.
- Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.
Course Customization Options
- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.
Course Outline
Digital Sovereignty and Lock-In Risk
- What digital sovereignty means in enterprise platform strategy
- Common sources of hyperscaler lock-in in infrastructure, data, and managed services
- How open source and open standards support control, portability, and resilience
Principles of Portable Platform Design
- Characteristics of a portable platform
- Designing for consistent deployment across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments
- Reducing dependence on provider-specific services and interfaces
Kubernetes and Containers in a Portable Architecture
- How containers improve workload consistency across environments
- The role of Kubernetes in standardizing application deployment and operations
- Practical considerations when selecting open-source components around Kubernetes
Open-Source Tooling for Delivery and Operations
- Infrastructure as code and configuration management for repeatable environments
- CI/CD and GitOps approaches for controlled platform delivery
- Observability, logging, and monitoring with open-source tools
Governance, Security, and Compliance
- Governance practices for sovereign platform adoption
- Security, policy, and software supply chain visibility considerations
- Balancing regulatory, operational, and platform engineering needs
Adoption Roadmap and Next Steps
- Assessing current lock-in risks and portability gaps
- Defining a realistic target architecture and migration priorities
- Creating an action plan for teams, tooling, governance, and phased adoption
Requirements
- Basic understanding of cloud computing, containers, and enterprise IT concepts
- Some experience with software platforms, infrastructure, or application delivery in an organization
- 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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