Given rising geopolitical tension, the Norwegian and Danish data protection authority called for their government agencies to have a plan to migrate away from US cloud providers. Needless to say, this causes a lot of anxiety with engineering teams who have never done a migration before. And while we all know that open-source and cloud native technologies, such as Kubernetes, make such a migration a lot less costly, the devil is always in the details.

This talk is aimed at engineering teams who have been asked to prepare a migration. The talk is structured as a migration plan along three main phases: pre-migration, migration execution, and post-migration. Platform engineers will leave the talk with reduced anxiety and a feeling of empowerment in eliminating “unknown unknowns”.