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Digital Sovereignty and Lock-In Risk

  • Understanding digital sovereignty within enterprise platform strategy.
  • Common sources of hyperscaler lock-in in infrastructure, data, and managed services.
  • The role of open source and open standards in supporting control, portability, and resilience.

Principles of Portable Platform Design

  • Key characteristics of a portable platform.
  • Strategies for consistent deployment across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise environments.
  • Reducing 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 standardising application deployment and operations.
  • Practical considerations when selecting open-source components surrounding 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 using open-source tools.

Governance, Security, and Compliance

  • Governance practices for adopting sovereign platforms.
  • Considerations regarding security, policy, and software supply chain visibility.
  • Balancing regulatory requirements, operational needs, and platform engineering demands.

Adoption Roadmap and Next Steps

  • Assessing current lock-in risks and identifying portability gaps.
  • Defining a realistic target architecture and prioritising migration efforts.
  • Creating an action plan for teams, tooling, governance, and phased adoption.

Requirements

  • A fundamental understanding of cloud computing, containers, and enterprise IT concepts.
  • Some experience with software platforms, infrastructure management, or application delivery within an organisational context.
  • Familiarity with either technical operations or strategic technology planning in a business setting.

Audience

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