Submission to the Sovereign Cloud Stack Standards Forum of the Open Source Business Alliance e.V.
In of our submission for the first round During the participation process for the German stack, we focused on the objectives of sovereignty, interoperability and European connectivity and emphasised that their implementation must be based on interoperable components and clearly defined interfaces as well as open, verifiable standards. Against this backdrop, the position was taken that the German stack should be based on already established and publicly funded standards, such as the Sovereign Cloud Stack.
The revised version of the German stack takes up this argument and explicitly names the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) as a standard to be complied with in the Managed Services and Cloud division, in addition to the standards of the German Administrative Cloud (DVC) and OpenStack. At the same time, specific requirements are formulated for virtualised and scalable cloud services as well as for basic operational functions and framework conditions. This explicit anchoring is a groundbreaking signal. The standards of the Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS) layer from SCS and the detailed standards of the DVC complement each other and this opens up the possibility of further developing the complementary standards named in the Germany stack together.
Against this backdrop, we are commenting on the current version of the Overall picture of the Germany stack. We want to help ensure that the opportunity of a modern architecture for a digital Germany is utilised.
Our submission contains feedback and comments on the following components of the Germany stack:
- Architectural principles,
- Motivation,
- Virtualised software-based infrastructure,
- DevSecOps and APIs and
- Managed services and cloud.
The submission has been published on OpenCode and is available in the document 2nd round consultation process Germany Stack - Submission Forum Sovereign Cloud Stack Standards of the Open Source Business Alliance e.V. can be viewed in full.
