Published 27 Feb 2026
Duration: 00:53:45
This podcast discusses EU-based alternatives to mainstream infrastructure and software development tools to achieve digital sovereignty, examining open-source and self-hosted solutions for development and management.
In this episode, we explore European alternatives to the hyperscaler cloud providers, identity providers, and source code management systems.Podcast e...
The podcast explores EU-based alternatives to mainstream infrastructure and software development tools in an effort to achieve digital sovereignty and reduce dependency on external providers that may not be fully trusted. The discussion centers on evaluating open-source and self-hosted solutions for key components such as source code management, CI/CD pipelines, and serverless functions. The hosts find it difficult to locate fully compliant commercial solutions within the EU and highlight the challenges of hosting private repositories under EU regulations, looking into platforms like Codeberg, Forge, and self-hosted Git servers. While these options are considered, their limitations in terms of feature completeness and integration are acknowledged.
The hosts also examine EU-based cloud providers such as Scaleway, assessing their offerings in compute, storage, networking, and serverless computing. However, they identify gaps in service integration and identity and access management (IAM) controls. To manage infrastructure, they use Terraform and custom configurations, and they consider alternatives for user authentication and identity management. The podcast concludes with an emphasis on the need for more mature EU-based software and infrastructure tools, the importance of community input, and the ongoing search for fully EU-compatible tools to build a complete development environment.
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