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To support and push EU's strong moves to secure its digital sovereignty with a common vision for 2030, there is a need for providing an open-source and ready-to-use cloud computing stack for CSPs to offer infrastructure services and also an open-source managed services framework to offer a competitive service catalog on top of it. The intention of the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) is to provide an open-source cloud computing stack ready to be utilized by cloud service providers as well as operators of private cloud environments and the Eclipse Xpanse project provides a framework to offer fully managed services on public and private clouds. In this talk, we will see how SCS and Eclipse Xpanse makes a great combination to offer a fully open-source backed cloud stack.

Project Eclipse Xpanse aims to implement configurable and portable managed services based on principles and ideas of "Eclipse Open Services Cloud initiative." This project allows service providers to offer their managed services across multiple clouds easily by abstracting all critical aspects of a cloud service such as catalog, life-cycle management, deployment, monitoring and metering.

Eclipse Xpanse isn't only for providing managed services on big hyperscalers but is also a perfect add-on layer for any small and medium-sized cloud providers offering infrastructure services. It will provide an open ecosystem to allow service providers to offer native managed services easily on such cloud providers too. One such good example is Openstack which is used by many public and private cloud providers. Eclipse Xpanse can be used to provide managed services on top of any Openstack based cloud.

In this talk, we will see:

1. How Xpanse approaches the problems of current cloud market and implements the OSC ideas.
2. Xpanse architecture - Runtime, API and UI.
3. Define managed services using the Xpanse Service Descriptor.
4. Make services available in the service catalog.
5. Deploy services using the current reference implementation clouds - Any vanilla Openstack based clouds, SCS based clouds, HUAWEI cloud and Flexible Engine.

The European Union has made strong moves to secure its digital sovereignty with a common vision for 2030, based on enabling a fairer European Cloud Market with vastly improved data connectivity infrastructures. To have the Open data ecosystems and secure data infrastructure that the EU Data Strategy with Data Act, Digital Market Act & Digital Services Act dictates, both open and portable Data and Cloud Services are required. The current European Cloud market , particularly the IaaS segment is dominated by hyperscalers who have several competitive advantages over the rest of the market players mainly due to scale of their broad investment capabilities that only hyperscalers themselves can benefit from. There are many Cloud Service Providers (CSP) that can provide infrastructure, however they generally can struggle in providing the variety of managed software services that can compete with the service catalogs of the hyperscalers. This then hinders these CSPs from being able to attract the volume of enterprises needed to allow them to scale. Likewise, if an Open Cloud Services that can fill these CSPs service catalogs are only able to be bound to a specific few Infrastructures in isolation, this will also not create the diversity and fairness needed for the European Cloud Market either. Having Open Cloud Services on an Open Infrastructure is fundamental to securing the digital sovereignty the European Union desires, enabling growth of a wider more evenly spread pool of European Cloud Market participants that can participate in the Open Data EcoSystems. This is also essential to allow open and portable Data and Cloud Services created by communities such as Eclipse Tractus-X to be deployable and implementable anywhere.

The Eclipse Foundation Xpanse aims at providing an integrated open-source framework and solution for all cloud providers that allows services portability across any clouds, providing the Open Cloud Services part of this couple.

The intention of the Sovereign Cloud Stacks (SCS) is to provide an open-source cloud computing stack ready to be utilized by cloud service providers as well as operators of private cloud environments. By the community driven effort to build to standardized stack of components from the main upstream projects from LF, CNCF and OIF SCS in itself is an open, free and digital sovereign alternative to the main proprietary solutions in the market. The certifiable standards secure portability of main computing workloads between different environments and vendors as well as foster collaboration between organisations, which operate as well as utilize SCS, with respect to taking part in the same ecosystem and sharing operational knowledge and experiences.

Both Eclipse Xpanse and SCS form a foundation upon which participants in open data and infrastructure ecosystems are enabled to create innovative digital solutions and can take investments decisions on cloud infrastructure and application provisioning without the risk of being tied to a single vendor. This talk will showcase on how the two communities cooperate to demonstrate a combined open cloud technology solution for infrastructure and application deployment and operation.