ALASCA Summit 2025
as the organisers put it
ALASCA Summit 2025 I This community event brings together open source enthusiasts to shape the digital future of the cloud in Europe.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome and Opening Remarks | Marius Feldmann | 20m |
Formal opening welcomes an international crowd, outlines a push for digital sovereignty for Europe and concrete activity: six projects on maintenance, a… | ||
| Introduction and Welcome | Josephine Seifert | 03m |
Welcome and logistics for the ALASCA Summit set the day: opening session, talks and a panel, lightning talks and technical deep dives, with attendees asked to… | ||
| A Journey of Ups and Downs Towards Sovereignty at Scale | Gerhard Bader | 10m |
Yorizon builds a European sovereign cloud with a timber main structure on a concrete foundation in Helinghouse, Germany, using wooden structure and hot-water… | ||
| OpenStack with Kolla or YAOOK? | Matthias Haag | 11m |
UhuruTec evaluates Kolla Ansible vs YAOOK and chooses YAOOK: Kolla runs into a configuration deadlock that forces full redeploys and 30-minute Ansible runs… | ||
| Why Open Source is Not Optional - Especially When It Comes to Trustworthiness | Kai Martius | 12m |
Open source provides measurable trust by enabling inspection, reuse and direct fixes rather than opaque validation. secunet highlights that many global… | ||
| Sovereign Cloud Stack Technical Deep Dive | Kurt Garloff | 17m |
Project chooses Kubernetes on virtualisation for multi tenancy and live cluster lifecycle operations running on commodity servers, implemented with OpenStack +… | ||
| Introducing ARKO: Monitor your heterogeneous infrastructure in an intuitive way | Martin Pilka | 18m |
ALASCA ARKO is a donated, open source monitoring stack (Apache) that combines Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager, S3/MinIO long‑term storage and log… | ||
| Continuity on the Path to Digital Sovereignty - European Initiatives in Focus | Sebastian Lindner, Tor Lund-Larsen, Stephan Ilaender, Kai Martius, Christian Berendt, Kurt Garloff | 01h 15m |
Panel documents a Europeans-first stack: funded projects like sovereign cloud stack + Neonos/Neo as shared code homes, operator coalitions such as ALASCA and… | ||
| FOCIS on a digitally sovereign future | Matthias Büchse | 08m |
ALASCA FOCIS runs November 2024–July 2026 and focuses on making an open cloud stack installable and verifiable in Saxony through concrete deliverables… | ||
| Not Reinventing OpenStacks UI - Just Filling in the Gaps (With Cheese) | Michelle Fuchs | 07m |
A standalone OpenStack billing dashboard built during the ALASCA hackathon fetches billing data with one OpenStack service account, caches it periodically… | ||
| RouterKit - a new Community Project for Software Defined Routers | Thomas Liske | 07m |
Claims 100G line‑rate possible on commodity x86 hardware using a batteries‑included distro. Builds RouterKit OS on Alpine Linux discless mode with LBU for… | ||
| How to get rich with cloud! | Gerd Aschemann, Matthias Haag | 27m |
Built a unified accounting service that aggregates usage from bare metal up through OpenStack and customer-facing services, aiming for zero data loss and… | ||
| All eyes on Open Source: Monitoring community sovereignty | Marcel Beyer | 08m |
Tool clones repositories and pulls issues and merge requests to compute community metrics (commit authors and frequency, issue open/close times, merge request… | ||
| the History of disaggregating Operating Systems from Hardware | Martin Hayes | 18m |
SONiC is presented as a Debian‑based, containerized network OS that Microsoft open sources in 2016 and hands to the Linux Foundation in 2022, running… | ||
| Biggest digital sovereignty fails so far | Daniel Gerber | 12m |
Overview of concrete failures and who is locked out by whom: the F-35 arrives as a software-defined weapon with 8 million lines of code but the US forbids… | ||
| Towards a Community Build of SONiC | Marius Feldmann, Matthias Haag | 11m |
SONiC builds currently take 2–3 hours and pull from many vendor-controlled hosts (Microsoft trafficmanager.net dominates), producing flaky CI with… | ||
| Multi-Provider Cloud Architecture at a Managed Service Provider | Christian Berendt | 15m |
A managed service provider builds a multi-provider stack using Gardener as the Kubernetes orchestration layer and OpenStack cloud pods for sensitive workloads… | ||
| Digital Public Infrastructure - Government Clouds based on Open Source | Karsten Samaschke | 18m |
Demonstrates a working GovStack Cloud Infrastructure Building Block implemented with Sovereign Cloud Stack, using OpenStack + Cluster API as the base… | ||
| Your Cloud. Your Rules. Building a Sovereign Cloud with Open Technologies | Stefan Majer | 22m |
Shows a tested recipe using Kubernetes, metal-stack.io, SONiC and Gardener to run an on‑prem sovereign cloud: 1 minute node provisioning, full Kubernetes… | ||
| DARKSOL: Towards a Cloud-Native Platform for Space Applications | Tobias Nöthlich, Anastasia Vöhringer, Martin Messer | 14m |
Darksol describes a functioning design that runs containerised apps on clustered satellites with a stable intra‑cluster link and DTN links between clusters… | ||
| The Blue Angel as a driver for ecological sustainability and open source | Anna Zagorski | 14m |
Germany produces 10.8 kg e‑waste per person (2022) and a new laptop’s manufacturing emissions take about 88 years to amortize by energy savings; even a 70%… | ||
| CAPI vs. ClusterStacks: The Better is the Enemy of the Good | Karsten Samaschke, Martin Pilka | 20m |
Live demo compares vanilla Cluster API (CAPI) with SCS ClusterStacks and shows CAPI alone leaves gaps around CNI/CSI, node images, and safe upgrades while… | ||
| The Sovereignty Blueprint: Multi-Cloud Platform Strategy for European Ecosystem | Christina Kraus, Florian Nowarre | 16m |
meshStack integrates IONOS, StackIT, OVH and hyperscalers into a single control plane using Terraform, GitHub Actions, TypeScript to automate tenant… | ||
| Efficient Linux Client Management | Stefan Bogner | 14m |
A Linux client management stack based on open source tools actually deploys and keeps desktops and servers compliant: Foreman and Katello for provisioning and… | ||
| Cloud Sovereignty: Introducing the NeoNephos Linux Foundation Europe Project | Christian Weiß, Christian Neu | 20m |
A European sovereign cloud-to-edge continuum software layer claims to be production-ready rather than academic: it hosts 11 projects under Linux Foundation… | ||
| openDesk: cloud-native office and collaboration suite for public administration | René Fischer | 15m |
Kubernetes-based office suite that combines existing OSS into a single Helm deployment and claims production use across Germany with 83 pods, 100+ container… | ||
| Digital Sovereignty Through Digital Infrastructure - Where Does Saxony Stand? | Stephan Rohde | 12m |
Saxony plans two new data centers (primary plus backup) targeted for production by the end of 2028, keeps citizen and business data on-premises for privacy and… | ||
| Interactive Question and Answer | Stephan Rohde, René Fischer | 20m |
End of Windows 10 drives a migration plan: testing macOS and Linux, rejecting Azure after reported outages, and estimating 96,000 devices to replace; a public… | ||
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