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Digital Sovereignty and Lock-In Risk

  • Understanding the meaning of digital sovereignty within enterprise platform strategy.
  • Identifying common causes of hyperscaler lock-in across infrastructure, data, and managed services.
  • Examining how open source and open standards facilitate control, portability, and resilience.

Principles of Portable Platform Design

  • The defining characteristics of a portable platform.
  • Strategies for ensuring consistent deployment across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments.
  • Minimizing reliance on provider-specific services and interfaces.

Kubernetes and Containers in a Portable Architecture

  • How containerization enhances workload consistency across diverse environments.
  • The function of Kubernetes in standardizing application deployment and operational procedures.
  • Practical factors to consider when choosing open-source components surrounding Kubernetes.

Open-Source Tooling for Delivery and Operations

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

Governance, Security, and Compliance

  • Governance practices supporting the adoption of sovereign platforms.
  • Considerations for security, policy enforcement, and visibility into the software supply chain.
  • Balancing regulatory requirements with operational and platform engineering needs.

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 covering teams, tooling, governance, and phased adoption strategies.

Requirements

  • A fundamental understanding of cloud computing, containers, and enterprise IT principles.
  • Some prior experience working with software platforms, infrastructure, or application delivery within an organizational setting.
  • Familiarity with technical operations or technology planning within a business context.

Audience

  • IT architects and platform engineers.
  • Managers responsible for cloud, infrastructure, and DevOps operations.
  • Tech leaders, enterprise architects, and teams focused on digital transformation.
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