Digital Sovereignty Training in Leon

This live training, led by an instructor (available online or onsite), is aimed at technical professionals who wish to deploy and manage open source collaboration platforms that maintain data sovereignty while providing modern team communication capabilities.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to evaluate platforms, deploy self-hosted solutions, configure security and integrations, migrate from existing platforms, and establish operational procedures.

This instructor-led, live training (online or in-person) is designed for enterprise leaders who aim to understand data sovereignty principles and develop compliant data management strategies.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to define data sovereignty, identify applicable laws, assess compliance risks, and implement governance frameworks for cross-border data management.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is designed for database administrators and developers looking to migrate from proprietary databases to open source PostgreSQL.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to assess database migration readiness, plan and execute schema migration strategies, migrate data using appropriate tools, and handle application code conversion.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate to advanced IT leaders, compliance officers, and digital transformation managers who aim to implement digital sovereignty initiatives using a structured roadmap approach.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to assess their organization's digital sovereignty maturity, develop a comprehensive strategy, create an actionable implementation roadmap, and establish governance frameworks.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is designed for system administrators and DevOps engineers who wish to deploy, configure, and manage EXO clusters for private LLM inference across multiple Apple Silicon or Linux nodes.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at DevOps engineers and infrastructure architects who wish to automate the provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management of private AI clusters built on EXO.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at security engineers and compliance officers who wish to harden EXO deployments, control model access, and govern AI workloads running entirely on-premise.

Gitea is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted Git service that provides repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, and CI/CD integration. It is an increasingly popular alternative to GitHub and GitLab.com for teams needing full control over their source code without third-party terms of service or export restrictions.

GitLab Self-Managed refers to the on-premises deployment of GitLab's comprehensive DevSecOps platform. It encompasses source code management, CI/CD, container registries, security scanning, and monitoring capabilities. This solution serves as the premier choice for organizations seeking the complete feature set of GitLab without relying on SaaS dependencies or allowing data to leave their internal networks.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate to advanced DevOps engineers and system administrators who wish to deploy and manage self-hosted Kubernetes clusters without cloud dependencies.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to: deploy production-ready Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm on bare-metal or virtual machines; configure high-availability control planes and etcd clusters; implement container networking and storage for self-managed environments; set up monitoring and observability using self-hosted solutions.

This instructor-led live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at developers and technical teams who wish to use Ollama and open models to build and run private agentic AI solutions on internal infrastructure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to install and configure Ollama, evaluate and run open models locally, create simple agentic and retrieval-based workflows, and apply security and governance controls for regulated environments.

Matrix is an open protocol designed for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. Organizations are increasingly adopting Matrix with the Element client as an alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams to maintain end-to-end encryption, on-premise data residency, and federation with external trusted partners.

This instructor-led, live training in (online or onsite) is aimed at cloud professionals who wish to design and implement multi-cloud architectures that avoid vendor lock-in and ensure data sovereignty.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to identify vendor lock-in risks, design portable architectures, implement data sovereignty controls, and leverage cloud-agnostic tools.

NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the Nix package manager, providing fully declarative and reproducible system configuration. By defining entire operating systems as pure functions, NixOS eliminates configuration drift and facilitates atomic rollbacks, making it an excellent choice for sovereign infrastructure that requires auditability and exact reproducibility.

This live, instructor-led training—available online or on-site—targets IT professionals who want to assess and deploy open source office suites as alternatives to proprietary systems in corporate contexts.

By the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to compare different suites, plan migrations, configure deployment, resolve compatibility issues, implement collaboration tools, and oversee user adoption.

Ollama is an open-source solution designed for executing large language models locally on both consumer and enterprise-grade hardware. It streamlines model quantization, GPU resource allocation, and API delivery into a unified command-line interface, empowering organizations to self-host LLMs such as Llama, Mistral, and Qwen without transmitting prompts or sensitive data to providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at network engineers and infrastructure professionals who wish to use SONiC and ONL to deploy and manage open network infrastructure on white-box switches.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to: understand SONiC and ONL architecture, deploy open-source NOS on white-box hardware, configure networking features, and implement monitoring and automation.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is designed for system administrators and infrastructure engineers who want to design, deploy, and manage private OpenStack cloud infrastructure for enterprise settings.

By the end of this training, participants will understand OpenStack architecture, deploy private cloud infrastructure, manage compute and storage resources, implement security using Keystone, and apply best practices suitable for enterprises.

This instructor-led live training, available online or onsite, targets project management and IT professionals who want to deploy and manage open source project management platforms that ensure data sovereignty while supporting various project methodologies.

By the end of this training, participants will be equipped to evaluate solutions, deploy Taiga, OpenProject, and Focalboard, configure integrations, and migrate from proprietary tools.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level network engineers and infrastructure administrators who wish to implement software-defined networks using open source tools and technologies.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to design SDN architectures, implement Open vSwitch, configure FRRouting, deploy SDN controllers, and automate network management.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level network and infrastructure professionals who wish to use open-source routing, switching, Wi-Fi, and management tools to design, deploy, and operate a self-managed enterprise network.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to: design an open-source enterprise network architecture, configure routing, switching, and wireless services, enhance security and observability, and build an operational plan for ongoing support.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT leaders, compliance professionals, security teams, and enterprise architects who wish to use sovereign AI principles and governance practices to design AI environments that protect sensitive data, support localization requirements, and reduce vendor lock-in.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to: explain sovereign AI concepts, evaluate hosting and governance options, define controls for prompts and logs, and create a practical adoption roadmap.

This capstone course instructs participants on how to design, deploy, and manage a fully sovereign digital infrastructure stack from scratch. Upon completion, students will have established a functional mini-organization utilizing exclusively self-hosted, open-source tools for identity management, communication, productivity, development, security, AI, and monitoring—entirely independent of Google, Microsoft, AWS, or any proprietary SaaS solutions.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals who wish to deploy, configure, and manage a Stalwart mail server for self-hosted email and collaboration.

Synapse acts as the reference homeserver implementation for the Matrix protocol, enabling decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messaging. This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) targets intermediate DevOps engineers and system administrators who aim to utilize Synapse and Element to transition from cloud chat platforms to a self-hosted, federated messaging infrastructure.

Uptime Kuma is a user-friendly, self-hosted monitoring tool that tracks the availability of websites, services, and infrastructure. It offers an alternative to Pingdom, Datadog Synthetics, and UptimeRobot for teams that prefer to keep their monitoring data under their own control. This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) targets beginner-to-intermediate SREs and DevOps engineers who wish to utilize Uptime Kuma to replace cloud uptime monitoring with a self-hosted, sovereign status tracking platform.

This instructor-led live training, available online or onsite, targets technical professionals looking to deploy and manage self-hosted video conferencing solutions that ensure data sovereignty while providing enterprise-grade communication capabilities.

By the end of this training, participants will be equipped to deploy Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton, implement security hardening, configure enterprise features, and scale deployments for organizational workloads.

This live, instructor-led training in Leon (online or onsite) is designed for security engineers and system administrators who want to deploy and manage enterprise-grade self-hosted VPN solutions using WireGuard and OpenVPN.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to deploy WireGuard and OpenVPN, design scalable architectures, integrate with identity systems, and monitor/secure VPN infrastructure.

OpenVPN and WireGuard are the two dominant open-source VPN protocols. Running your own VPN server ensures that no third-party provider can log traffic metadata, inject advertisements, or comply with foreign data requests. This training covers both protocols for different threat models and performance requirements.

Wazuh is an open-source security platform providing unified XDR and SIEM capabilities for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response, and compliance. It aggregates endpoint telemetry into a self-managed analysis engine, offering a credible alternative to Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, and other cloud-native SIEMs.

Woodpecker CI is a straightforward yet robust continuous integration engine crafted specifically for self-hosted Git forge platforms such as Gitea and Forgejo. It delivers a lightweight, Docker-native CI/CD experience, eliminating the complexity and licensing costs typically associated with enterprise-grade CI solutions.

Zammad is a modern, web-based, open-source helpdesk and customer support system. It unifies tickets from email, chat, phone, and social media into a single queue, providing a self-hosted alternative to Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow that keeps customer data within your infrastructure.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate support managers and system administrators who wish to use Zammad to replace cloud helpdesk platforms with a self-hosted, sovereign ticketing system.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install Zammad from packages or Docker with PostgreSQL.
• Configure email, chat, and API channels for ticket ingestion.
• Design workflows, escalations, and SLA timers.
• Set up role-based access, groups, and organizations.
• Integrate with knowledge base, reporting, and webhooks.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Leon (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level security professionals who wish to implement Zero Trust Architecture using open-source tools and sovereign infrastructure.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to design Zero Trust architectures, deploy identity-aware proxies, implement dynamic authentication, secure microservices with service mesh, and monitor zero trust policies.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite is an open-source enterprise messaging and collaboration platform that provides email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and file sharing through a unified web interface. It acts as a direct, self-managed alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.