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Event Sovereign Cloud Days 2026 starts on Oct 24, 2026, 9:00:00 AM (Europe/Berlin)
Sovereign Cloud and Air-Gapped Delivery with Open Component Model
Cloud Infrastructure & Sovereignty Open Source & Community
Location: Main Stage - 10/25/26, 1:45 PM - 10/25/26, 2:30 PM (Europe/Berlin) (45 minutes)
Sovereign Cloud and Air-Gapped Delivery with Open Component Model
Jakob Möller
Engineering Manager at SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG
Jakob Möller
Engineering Manager at SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG

Jakob Möller is an Engineering Manager at SAP SE and maintainer of kro (Kube Resource Orchestrator) and External Secrets Operator and recently lead the donation of the Open Component Model to Linux Foundation Europe, becoming part of Technical Advisory and Steering Committees for the newly founded NeoNephos Foundation.


Tooling like cosign and infrastructure like OCI registries have proven track records in securing runtime artifact integrity with modern tooling. The only problem? The descriptions, attestations and metadata to ship these artifacts is usually not integrated and there is little support in the Cloud Native Ecosystem for unified Air Gapped delivery of large artifact lists and organizing releases.

Open Component Model solves this by providing an integrated specification together with tooling at build and deploy time for packing components that group artifacts, signing them, transporting them into a DMZ or through an Air-Gap, and deploying them completely location-agnostic into any cloud. vendor-neutral, open source by default.
Open Component Model is a secure delivery model for sovereign clouds from the NeoNephos Foundation, part of Linux Foundation Europe.