Digital sovereignty requires more than data protection — it demands control over the physical infrastructure layer. Operational dependency on vendor-specific provisioning tools, manual workflows, and undocumented processes creates hidden risks for sovereign cloud initiatives. Bare metal automation addresses these risks by providing transparent hardware inventory, repeatable provisioning, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Canonical MAAS is presented as an open source platform that automates the full lifecycle of physical servers using standard interfaces like IPMI and Redfish, enabling platform teams to manage bare metal with the same discipline applied to higher stack layers.
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Sovereignty: getting control of your metalOperational dependency is a sovereignty riskBare metal automation makes sovereignty sustainableClosing the gap with MAASConclusions and next stepsSort: