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The EU is making strong moves to secure its digital sovereignty. It has a common vision for 2030. To support this, two open-source pieces are needed. First, a ready-to-use cloud computing stack. CSPs can use it to offer infrastructure services. Second, a managed services framework. It adds a strong service catalog on top.

The Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) is one such open-source cloud computing stack. Cloud service providers and private cloud operators can use it right away. The Eclipse Xpanse project adds the second piece. It offers fully managed services on public and private clouds. In this talk, we will see how SCS and Eclipse Xpanse pair up to offer a fully open-source cloud stack.

Project Eclipse Xpanse builds managed services. You can set them up and move them. It's based on the ideas of the "Eclipse Open Services Cloud initiative." With Xpanse, a provider can offer managed services on many clouds. It hides the hard parts of a cloud service. These include the catalog, life-cycle, deployment, monitoring, and metering.

Xpanse isn't just for the big hyperscalers. It also suits small and medium cloud providers. It gives them an open way to offer native managed services. Openstack is one good example. Many public and private clouds use it. You can use Eclipse Xpanse to run managed services on any Openstack based cloud.

In this talk, we will see:

1. How Xpanse tackles today's cloud market. It also applies the OSC ideas.
2. The Xpanse architecture - runtime, API, and UI.
3. How to define services with the Xpanse Service Descriptor.
4. How to list services in the catalog.
5. How to deploy services on the reference clouds. These are any vanilla Openstack cloud, SCS clouds, HUAWEI cloud, and Flexible Engine.

The European Union wants to secure its digital sovereignty. Its 2030 vision aims for a fairer European cloud market with much better data links. The EU Data Strategy, the Data Act, the Digital Market Act, and the Digital Services Act all push for this. They need open data systems and secure data setups. For that, both data and cloud services must be open and portable. Today, a few hyperscalers rule the European cloud market, above all the IaaS part. They hold big advantages. Their scale and broad investments are hard for others to match. Many other Cloud Service Providers (CSP) offer infrastructure. But they struggle to match the wide range of managed software services that hyperscalers list. It's hard for them to attract enough firms and grow. Open cloud services could fill these gaps. But if they only run on a few clouds in isolation, the market still won't be fair or diverse.

Open cloud services need open infrastructure. This is key to the digital sovereignty the European Union wants. It helps a wider, more even pool of players join the open data systems. It also lets open, portable data and cloud services run anywhere. Communities such as Eclipse Tractus-X build such services.

The Eclipse Foundation Xpanse offers one open-source framework for all cloud providers. It lets services move across any cloud. It's the open cloud services half of this pair.

The Sovereign Cloud Stacks (SCS) offer an open-source cloud stack. Cloud providers and private cloud operators can use it right away. The community builds it from the main upstream projects of the LF, CNCF, and OIF. SCS is itself an open, free, and sovereign option next to the main paid products. Its certified standards let core workloads move between vendors and setups. They also help teams that run and use SCS work together and share what they learn.

Together, Eclipse Xpanse and SCS form a base for open data and infrastructure systems. On this base, members can build new digital solutions. They can invest in cloud infrastructure and apps without being tied to one vendor. This talk shows how the two communities work together. We demonstrate a combined open cloud solution for deploying and running both infrastructure and apps.