Open Sovereign Cloud Day Europe 2026
as the organisers put it
Open Sovereign Cloud Day 2026 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
platform engineers, kubernetes operators, infrastructure engineers, site reliability engineers, security engineers, cloud architects, it procurement managers
topics
EU cloud sovereignty framework SEAL; Sovereign Cloud Stack deployments; Kubernetes as unified control plane; OpenStack and Kubernetes integration; PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG; blue-green logical replication migrations; GPU workloads with NVIDIA H200; identity integration via Keycloak and Entra ID; observability with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus; air-gapped delivery and OCM workflows; portable-first container and API strategies; supply chain and procurement implications
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Thierry Carrez, Paula Grzegorzewska | 09m |
Welcome notes thank SUSE for sponsorship and outline a day driven by concrete examples: a session on the EU cloud sovereignty framework that grades system… | ||
| EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework Explained | Emiel Brok | 31m |
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework v1.2.1 (Oct 2025) defines 8 Sovereignty Objectives with explicit weights (strategic 15%, legal 10%, operational 15%, supply… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Progress Over Purity: Sovereignty That Actually Ships | Antoine Tielbeke | 10m |
Argues that perfect sovereignty is impossible and prioritizing impact wins: built a migration for Volt Europa (35,000 members) that moves member identity off… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Designing for Exit: Why Portability Is a Sovereignty Requirement | Alireza Rahmani | 08m |
Portability is a hard requirement for sovereign cloud: if workloads cannot move, control and sovereignty vanish. The talk claims sovereignty depends on three… | ||
| Running Sovereign Cloud Stack Cluster for International Telecommunication Union: Lessons Learned | Martin Pilka, Karsten Samaschke | 30m |
Sovereign Cloud Stack cluster for the International Telecommunication Union uses Kubernetes plus OpenStack (YaoK and ARCO components) to run GPU workloads with… | ||
| Sovereignty and Open Source? How To Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! | Vasu Chandrasekhara, Christian Hüning | 30m |
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… | ||
| Bridging CNCF and OpenInfra: Kubernetes as the Unified Control Plane for Sovereign Clouds | Michael Schmidt | 19m |
Kubernetes becomes the unified control plane: a Kubernetes‑managed OpenStack distribution CobaltCore bridges CNCF and OpenInfra using Kubernetes Resource Model… | ||
| Beyond the DBaaS Trap: Achieving Data Sovereignty With Kubernetes and CloudnativePG | Floor Drees, Gabriele Bartolini | 26m |
Claim: run PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG to escape DBaaS lock‑in and achieve operational sovereignty. Uses Kubernetes, PostgreSQL… | ||
| Panel: Kill the Kill Switch - Reclaiming Digiti... | Rossella S, Vasu C, Sebastiaan E, Kurt G, Jutta H | 34m |
A municipality recounts a 19 June 2019 attack that leaves systems encrypted and backups compromised after being 9 months undetected, forcing a full IT rebuild… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Thierry Carrez, Paula Grzegorzewska | 01m |
Closing notes announce next year’s session will coincide with KubeCon and a related forum on 8 June in Brussels, prompt attendees to continue conversations at… | ||
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