Field notes on sovereign engineering.
Guides and field notes on sovereign cloud, DevOps and private AI.
Your Own Private Cloud Is More Achievable Than You Think
Building a sovereign private cloud in Europe is cheaper and simpler than you think. A vendor-neutral guide to EU hosting, open-source layers, and effort.
Read more →Confidential Computing and MicroVMs: Hardware-Isolated, Sovereign Workloads
How confidential computing (AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, ARM CCA) and microVMs deliver hardware-isolated, sovereign, GDPR-aligned workloads in the EU.
Read more →Migrating off VMware: an open-source, vendor-neutral playbook
A vendor-neutral playbook for migrating off VMware after Broadcom's licensing changes: open-source options by workload, how to choose, and a phased plan.
Read more →Running Local LLMs Privately: On-Prem AI Without Data Egress
How to run private, self-hosted LLMs on-premise across the open ecosystem - vLLM, Ollama, llama.cpp, TGI - for GDPR-compliant AI with no data egress.
Read more →Sovereign storage: software-defined and object storage for private cloud
A vendor-neutral guide to sovereign storage: software-defined block, file and S3-compatible object storage for private cloud, with open-source trade-offs.
Read more →What Is Sovereign Cloud and How to Build One (Open Source)
Sovereign cloud explained, plus how to build one with open source. OpenStack, CloudStack, Proxmox, KubeVirt and more, mapped to EU data residency.
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