TAPPaaS: A Sovereign PaaS Blueprint for Europe’s Public and Civic Sector

<p>Many public bodies, NGOs and small providers in Europe want to move away from US‑dominated cloud platforms, but struggle to build and run their own stack with small teams and limited capacity. At the same time, the threat landscape makes it urgent to build more resilient infrastructure for critical public services.</p> <p>TAPPaaS is a trusted, automated and privacy‑friendly Platform as a Service, built only with Free and Open‑Source Software, that makes it easier for small teams to run sovereign workspaces and public digital services. In this talk, we present the TAPPaaS blueprint and show how we combine existing FOSS building blocks into a sovereign, standards‑based stack that can be operated by SMBs, NGOs and local governments with limited resources. We highlight how automation and common patterns reduce operational effort, improve security and resilience, and avoid lock‑in to proprietary hyperscalers.</p> <p>TAPPaaS is work in progress, so we share what already works well in pilots and prototypes, where we still hit hard problems, and which trade‑offs we made along the way. Attendees will leave with a concrete blueprint for running a sovereign PaaS with a small team. TAPPaaS comes with pre selected modules and integrations that can reuse in their own public or civic infrastructure, and clear ways to get involved as consumer, operators or contributors in shaping TAPPaaS as a building block of Europe’s public digital infrastructure.</p>