Implementation Guidance

Technical Specifications

Detailed technical guidance including infrastructure-as-code templates, platform service specifications, security controls, and data migration playbooks.

Specification Areas

Infrastructure as Code

OpenTofu modules, Kubernetes manifests, Ansible playbooks, and GitOps workflows for sovereign cloud provisioning.

Platform Services

Object storage, container platforms, database services, messaging, API gateway, and serverless alternatives.

Security Controls

Identity and access management, encryption, network security, vulnerability management, and compliance monitoring.

Data Migration

Data discovery, replication strategies, validation, cutover execution, and decommissioning procedures.

Operational Excellence

Monitoring, observability, SRE practices, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and vendor management.

CloudStack Use Cases

Building sovereign hyperscalers with Apache CloudStack, open-source FaaS (Lambda replacement), AWS service mapping, and international cooperative implementation.

NEW: 11 detailed use cases with implementation guidance

Sovereign Technology Stack

Recommended Open Source Platforms

Category Primary Choice Alternatives Why Sovereign
Container Orchestration Kubernetes (vanilla) K3s, Rancher CNCF standard, no vendor lock-in
Object Storage MinIO Ceph, SeaweedFS S3-compatible, self-hosted
Relational Database PostgreSQL MariaDB Open source, enterprise support
Identity Management Keycloak Authentik, Gluu OIDC/SAML, sovereign control
Secrets Management OpenBao Local HSMs Sovereign key custody
Message Queue Apache Kafka RabbitMQ, NATS Open source, scalable
API Gateway Kong Traefik, APISIX Feature-rich, extensible
Monitoring Prometheus + Grafana VictoriaMetrics Industry standard observability
Logging OpenSearch (ELK fork) Loki Scalable log aggregation
Infrastructure as Code OpenTofu Pulumi, Ansible Provider-agnostic
GitOps ArgoCD Flux Declarative deployments
Service Mesh Istio Linkerd, Cilium Zero-trust networking

Architecture Principles for Technical Implementation

Open Standards First

  • Use CNCF-graduated projects where possible
  • Prefer standard APIs (S3, OIDC, etc.)
  • Avoid proprietary extensions
  • Design for portability

Security by Design

  • Zero-trust networking
  • Encrypt everything (transit and rest)
  • Sovereign key management
  • Continuous compliance validation

Automation First

  • Infrastructure as Code (no manual provisioning)
  • GitOps for deployments
  • Automated testing and validation
  • Self-healing systems

Observable by Default

  • Metrics, logs, traces for all components
  • Centralised observability platform
  • Alerting and on-call
  • Capacity planning and forecasting

Technical Documentation Development

Detailed technical specifications for each area are in development. Each sub-section will include:

  • Architecture decision records (ADRs)
  • Configuration templates and examples
  • Security baseline requirements
  • Testing and validation procedures
  • Operational runbooks
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