Dutch Gaia-x hub builds Gaia-x test environment

The new test environment is part of Structura-X, a project within the Gaia-X initiative that focuses on common certification and quality marks to ensure interoperability of European cloud services. The new environment will be built with Kubernetes and Liqo opensource technology. Three independent Kubernetes-clusters of BIT, Intermax and Surf will be connected with each other with Liqo via private VLANs of AMS-IX. Info Support will monitor the new federated cloud test environment. And TNO provides the technical integration and validation of several technical use cases within this federated environment. Other cloud federation techniques will be added and researched in later phases.

In this first phase, the group will focus on whether data and workloads can be moved from cloud provider to cloud provider (cloud portability). In addition, the extent to which the capacities of different cloud providers can be combined (scale out) will be tested. In subsequent phases, the team will focus on the international context as the Dutch test environment will be linked to Italian, German and Belgian test environments. With the establishment of this European test infrastructure, cloud providers can offer Gaia-X compliant cloud services in an open ecosystem.