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Digital Sovereignty and Lock-In Risk

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

Principles of Portable Platform Design

  • Characteristics defining 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 enhance workload consistency across various 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 approaches for controlled platform delivery.
  • Utilizing open-source tools for observability, logging, and monitoring.

Governance, Security, and Compliance

  • Governance practices essential for sovereign platform adoption.
  • Security, policy, and software supply chain visibility considerations.
  • Balancing regulatory, operational, and platform engineering requirements.

Adoption Roadmap and Next Steps

  • Assessing 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.

Requirements

  • Fundamental understanding of cloud computing, containers, and enterprise IT concepts.
  • Some experience with software platforms, infrastructure, or application delivery within 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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