Keynote: Digital Sovereignty by Design: Turning Developer Intent into Portable... Oskar Kristiansen

This talk features Oskar Kristiansen, an Enterprise Platform Engineer at Saxo Bank, who explores the concept of digital sovereignty in enterprise environments. The speaker addresses the challenges of managing workloads with Kubernetes while dealing with fragmented identity providers and network controls outside the cluster, which often lead to onboarding delays. He presents the Saxo Service Blueprint, which utilizes Kubernetes operators and GitOps to create an abstraction layer between developer intent and infrastructure management, allowing for streamlined access control and automation across multiple environments. The session highlights significant improvements in provisioning speed and disaster recovery consistency, demonstrating the model's adaptability as it extends to integrate on-prem workloads into automated processes.