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title: "Cloud-agnostic provisioning for fun and sovereignty"
weight: 3
tags:
 - rejekts
 - multicloud
 - sovereign
 - flatcar
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A talk by Thilo - flatcar maintainer and cool guy.
The talk consisted of multipe demos and a warning of this being the alpha version of the talk but most things worked out fine.

## Baseline

- **Why selfhost:** Why not? Cost efficiency, vendor independence, sovereignty requirements, customization, ....)
- **Why our stack is kubernetes:** FOSS, community driven, versatile, stable, broad ecosystem, ...
- **You can run it on any host**: Baremetal, Private Clouds (OpenStack, Proxmox),m Public Clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure, Stackit, Akamai)
- **Choose your favorite OS**: Flatcar, Ubuntu, ...

## The demo

- **Problem:** Sovereignty is hard to proove
- **This talks demo:** Cloud agnostic provisioning of kubernetes clusters on localhost (QEMU), Hetzner and Akamai
- **How**: Just use one shared flatcar snapshot to provision on all cloud/localy
- **QEMU Specual**: Qemu is not really a vm orchestrator, so wee need a little hack to enable cross-vm networking (not needed on other hypervisors/clouds)
- **In-place updates**: Through kured (kubernetes update and reboot daemon)

## Why Flatcar is cool

- One config for many environments
- Seamless migration to other cloud-providers and cross-clopud c,usters
- Community driven and CNCF-backed
- Managed updates
- Airgapping
- Extendability through sysext

## What is **real** sovereignty

- You can operate it youirself?
- You can keep it stable?
- Is your stack well stewarded/maintained and can you join?
- Can you own it (fork, etc)?