SCS: Large federated infrastructure for sovereignty
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 27/10/2020

Special thanks to our 2020 Open Infrastructure Summit sponsors for making the event possible: Canonical (Ubuntu), Huawei, VEXXHOST, Cisco, Tencent Cloud, InMotion Hosting, Mirantis, Red Hat, Trilio, VanillaStack.io, and ZTE!
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Today's platforms for cloud-native solutions are dominated by big hyperscalers from the US and from China, which come with technical and economic dependencies and legal circumstances that may not meet everyone's strategic, economic or regulatory needs.
In the GAIA-X project, European countries are building infrastructure and data ecosystems that provide sovereignty and help Europe to catch up with leading IT technology. The Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) sub project aims to provide a standard for federated clouds along with a modular, fully 4x open implementation for a complete cloud stack, from bare metal, VMs to container orchestration along with needed tooling and best practices. It combines Open Source infrastructure software and automates the processes to continuously integrate, configure, secure, validate, deploy, upgrade and monitor the resulting platforms. Certifiable standards ensure that the federation from several providers and in-house deployments work smoothly.

Speakers: Kurt Garloff, Christian Berendt
Track: Public Cloud