Sovereign Cloud Stack Release 3 brings, among other things, automated encryption and expanded Kubernetes cluster management.
With version 3, the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) offers not only the update of its open source components, but also network-based hard disk encryption and simplified management of Kubernetes clusters.
The SCS components have been updated in Release 3 to OpenStack Yoga, Ceph Quincy, OSISM 4.0.0 and Kubernetes Cluster API 1.2.x. Network-based disk encryption (Network-Bound Disk Encryption, NBDE) enables cloud service providers to encrypt and decrypt data carriers automatically in order to prevent unauthorized access to the customer data they contain.
The health monitor provides detailed monitoring of the cloud environment when using OpenStack as the underlying infrastructure layer. Analysis tools have been added to SCS’ Kubernetes cluster management, and each cluster now has its own private authorization to manage cloud resources. The project team has summarized the technical details of the new features in the release notes.
Gaia-X substructure for public administration
The SCS provides a technical underpinning for Gaia-X compliant infrastructure and services and for a federable, open management cloud. According to the leading Open Source Business Alliance, the SCS reference implementation meets all the minimum requirements for the use of cloud services by the public sector in terms of software and licenses. At the same time, SCS is designed for high security requirements and supports platform operators in public administration with its architecture, open development processes and the provision of operating knowledge as part of the BSI certification according to IT basic protection.
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