Sovereignty and Open Source? How To Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!
summary
German armed forces IT supplier BWI commits real funding to build an Open Defense Cloud by joining Neo Nephos under Linux Foundation Europe and wiring public money into concrete OSS: IronCore for bare‑metal/K8s resource management, Gardener/Garden Linux for cluster orchestration, platform mesh for cross‑provider service exchange, OCM plus Solar and Arc for air‑gapped app delivery, and OSTP for bootstrap K8s. A production Bundesmessenger based on Matrix already runs, demonstrating multi‑stack portability across VCF and a Google air‑gapped stack.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Sovereignty and open source
- 1:25Open source in military
- 2:28Digital sovereignty via ecosystems
- 6:25Kubernetes standards success
- 8:53Principle for sovereign ecosystems
- 9:37EU cloud edge investments
- 11:02Digital sovereignty in defense
- 13:10Software-defined defense cycles
- 15:56Bundesmessenger example
- 17:17Investing in interoperability
- 18:43BWI’s multi-cloud strategy
- 21:38Standardization for defense
- 21:59Neo Nephos projects
- 24:24Conclusion and call
- 25:31Q&A on provisioning
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