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format: toon
version: "1.0"
kind: "deployment_blueprint_template"
name: "Sovereign Modular Micro-DC — Global Template"
generated_by: "AI Council OS — 14-seat round table"
lastUpdated: "2026-DEC-05"
context:
objective: >
Deploy a repeatable, sovereign, eco-efficient micro–data center “module”
that can be cloned to multiple regions and countries. All infra must be
reproducible from Git, fully automated (zero manual provisioning), and
aligned with GDPR/data-sovereignty (where applicable) and local
sustainability/facility requirements.
primary_regime:
jurisdiction: "<REGULATORY_REGION> # e.g. EU/EEA, Member State: FR"
privacy: "<PRIMARY_PRIVACY_LAW> # e.g. GDPR + local data protection law"
dpia_required_for:
- "Healthcare data"
- "Large-scale processing of special categories of personal data"
- "AI/ML profiling of individuals at scale"
facility_standards:
- "EN 50600-oriented design"
- "<COUNTRY_SPECIFIC_ELECTRICAL_CODE>"
sustainability_frameworks:
- "EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (or local equivalent)"
- "Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) thresholds where applicable"
target_use_cases:
- "AI/ML training and inference with GPUs"
- "SaaS / line-of-business apps"
- "Edge compute for public sector / industry"
design_principles:
- "Sovereign-by-design: clear mapping of data to jurisdiction and operators"
- "Modular: small, repeatable 'bricks' instead of bespoke facilities"
- "Infra-as-code and policy-as-code; no snowflake clusters"
- "Observability, SLOs, error budgets from day one"
- "Sustainability KPIs (PUE/WUE/renewables/reuse) are first-class"
assumptions:
module_scale:
it_load_kw: 80 # adjust per deployment
racks_total: 8
racks_gpu: 2
racks_compute: 4
racks_storage: 2
location_examples:
- "Paris, France (EU-PAR-FR01)"
- "Paris, France (EU-PAR-FR02)"
- "Frankfurt, Germany (EU-FRA-DE01)"
- "Berlin, Germany (EU-BER-DE02)"
- "Amsterdam, Netherlands (EU-AMS-NL01)"
- "Rome, Italy (EU-ROM-IT01)"
- "New York, United States (US-NY-US01)"
stack_choice:
bare_metal: "MAAS (or equivalent) for server discovery/commissioning"
virtualization: "Proxmox VE or similar on most nodes; bare-metal K8s for GPU nodes optional"
cloud_layer: "Kubernetes as primary control plane; OpenStack optional add-on"
storage: "Ceph (NVMe + HDD tiers) + object storage; local NVMe cache on GPU nodes"
automation_stack:
iac:
- "Terraform for network/DCIM/inventory where APIs exist"
- "Ansible for OS/provisioning/bootstrap"
gitops:
- "Argo CD or Flux for K8s/OpenStack configuration"
policy_as_code:
- "OPA/Kyverno, CI policy checks, security/compliance gates"
sovereign_controls:
residency:
- "All primary storage and processing located within approved jurisdictions"
- "Backups replicated only within approved sovereign scope"
data_classification_levels:
- "PUBLIC"
- "INTERNAL"
- "PERSONAL"
- "SENSITIVE_PERSONAL"
- "CRITICAL_SOVEREIGN_<COUNTRY_CODE>"
cross_border_rules:
- "CRITICAL_SOVEREIGN_<COUNTRY_CODE>: must not leave the country"
- "SENSITIVE_PERSONAL: must not leave defined region (e.g., EU/EEA)"
- "PERSONAL: only with approved transfer mechanism and DPO sign-off"
regions_and_sites:
overview: >
Initial seed footprint of seven sovereign micro-DC modules across Europe
and North America. All sites follow this global template with local
overlays for power, cooling, connectivity, and regulatory specifics.
sites:
- code: "EU-PAR-FR01"
country: "FR"
city: "PAR"
role: "Primary EU hub - Paris #1"
status: "planned"
- code: "EU-PAR-FR02"
country: "FR"
city: "PAR"
role: "Secondary EU hub - Paris #2"
status: "planned"
- code: "EU-FRA-DE01"
country: "DE"
city: "FRA"
role: "Primary DE hub - Frankfurt"
status: "planned"
- code: "EU-BER-DE02"
country: "DE"
city: "BER"
role: "Secondary DE hub - Berlin"
status: "planned"
- code: "EU-AMS-NL01"
country: "NL"
city: "AMS"
role: "Primary NL hub - Amsterdam"
status: "planned"
- code: "EU-ROM-IT01"
country: "IT"
city: "ROM"
role: "Primary IT hub - Rome"
status: "planned"
- code: "US-NY-US01"
country: "US"
city: "NY"
role: "Primary US hub - New York"
status: "planned"
naming_conventions:
overview: >
Canonical naming scheme for sites and devices, used consistently in all
blueprints, IaC, monitoring, documentation and inventory systems. Pattern
is designed to be global (multi-continent), sovereign-aware (country),
location-specific (city) and module/rack/device specific.
site_code:
pattern: "<CONTINENT>-<CITY>-<COUNTRY><NN>"
description: >
Human- and machine-readable identifier for a physical site/module.
Always use fixed-width 2-digit numeric suffix <NN> for uniqueness.
examples:
- "EU-PAR-FR01 # Paris, France - primary"
- "EU-PAR-FR02 # Paris, France - secondary"
- "EU-FRA-DE01 # Frankfurt, Germany - first DE site"
- "EU-BER-DE02 # Berlin, Germany - second DE site"
- "EU-AMS-NL01 # Amsterdam, Netherlands - first NL site"
- "EU-ROM-IT01 # Rome, Italy - first IT site"
- "US-NY-US01 # New York, USA - first US site"
components:
continent:
code_values:
- "EU # Europe"
- "US # United States"
notes: "Extend with other continents (AP, AF, SA, OC, AS, etc.) as needed."
country:
code_values:
- "FR # France"
- "DE # Germany"
- "NL # Netherlands"
- "IT # Italy"
- "US # United States"
notes: "Use ISO-like 2-letter codes for countries."
city:
code_values:
- "PAR # Paris"
- "MAR # Marseille"
- "BOR # Bordeaux"
- "NAN # Nantes"
- "FRA # Frankfurt"
- "BER # Berlin"
- "AMS # Amsterdam"
- "ROM # Rome"
- "NY # New York"
notes: >
City codes are stable mnemonics; define centrally (e.g. in a YAML map)
and reuse. For new cities, extend the map only via PR review.
index:
pattern: "NN # 01–99"
notes: >
Unique per country; 01 usually primary site in that country, 02
secondary, etc. Example: EU-FRA-DE01 (first DE site, Frankfurt),
EU-BER-DE02 (second DE site, Berlin).
rack_code:
pattern: "<SITE>-RK<rr>"
description: >
Identifies a specific rack within a site. Can be extended with room/zone
information when necessary while preserving RK<rr> as the rack index.
examples:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01"
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK02"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01"
- "EU-BER-DE02-RK01"
- "EU-AMS-NL01-RK01"
- "EU-ROM-IT01-RK01"
- "US-NY-US01-RK01"
extensions:
room_or_zone:
description: >
If racks span multiple rooms/zones, use a suffix or infix such as
RK01A, RK02B or Z1-RK01 as standardised in the physical model.
examples:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-Z1-RK01"
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01A"
device_code:
pattern: "<SITE>-RK<rr>-<DEVICE><dd>"
description: >
Identifies a specific device in a rack. DEVICE is a short type code;
<dd> is a 2-digit index, except for devices that traditionally use
letter suffixes (e.g., PDUs A/B).
examples:
firewalls:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-FW01"
- "EU-PAR-FR02-RK01-FW01"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-FW01"
- "EU-BER-DE02-RK01-FW01"
management_nodes:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-mgmt01 # Local management node (e.g. MAAS rack controller)"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-mgmt01"
- "US-NY-US01-RK01-mgmt01"
switches:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-tor01 # ToR / L3 switch"
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK02-tor02"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-lf01 # Leaf switch"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-sp01 # Spine switch"
- "EU-BER-DE02-RK01-sp02 # Spine switch"
- "EU-AMS-NL01-RK01-tor01"
- "EU-ROM-IT01-RK01-tor01"
- "US-NY-US01-RK01-tor01"
servers:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-srv01"
- "EU-PAR-FR02-RK01-srv01"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-srv01"
- "EU-BER-DE02-RK01-srv01"
- "EU-AMS-NL01-RK01-srv01"
- "EU-ROM-IT01-RK01-srv01"
- "US-NY-US01-RK01-srv01"
storage:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-san01 # SAN array"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-nas01 # NAS filer"
- "EU-AMS-NL01-RK01-jbd01 # JBOD / disk shelf"
monitoring:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-mon01"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-mon01"
- "US-NY-US01-RK01-mon01"
power:
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-pduA"
- "EU-PAR-FR01-RK01-pduB"
- "EU-FRA-DE01-RK01-pduA"
- "US-NY-US01-RK01-pduA"
device_type_codes:
tor: "Top of Rack switch (often L3 capable)"
ss: "Super spine"
sp: "Spine"
blf: "Border leaf"
lf: "Leaf"
fw: "Firewall"
lb: "Load balancer"
srv: "Server (compute/GPU/infra)"
san: "SAN storage array"
nas: "NAS filer"
jbd: "JBOD / disk shelf"
oob: "Out-of-band management device"
mgmt: "Generic management node (e.g., MAAS, jump host)"
mon: "Monitoring / logging node"
pduA: "Rack PDU side A"
pduB: "Rack PDU side B"
implementation_notes:
- "Enforce naming via IaC modules (variables, templates, validation in CI)."
- "Monitoring, CMDB and inventory tools must use these names as primary identifiers."
- "No ad-hoc names; new device types must extend the device_type_codes map and be reviewed."
- "Where external systems impose constraints (e.g. 15-char limits), define deterministic truncation rules."
architecture:
layers:
- name: "Facility & Physical Module (Physical Infrastructure & Facility Engineering Lead)"
description: >
Physical micro-DC module: room/container, racks, power, cooling,
structured cabling, environmental monitoring, aligned with local
building/electrical codes and EN 50600-style principles.
design:
form_factor:
options:
- "Prefabricated container (2-4 racks) for remote/edge sites"
- "Dedicated technical room in existing building for 6-10 racks"
power:
utility_feeds: "At least 1 primary + 1 secondary where feasible"
ups_topology: "Modular online UPS, N+1"
generator:
presence: true
autonomy_hours: 8
redundancy_level: "N+1 for IT load, 2N for critical infra when justified"
per_rack_pdu:
type: "Intelligent, metered, switched"
cooling:
primary:
type: "In-row or rear-door cooling units"
free_cooling:
enabled: true
gpu_rack_density_kw: 20
cpu_rack_density_kw: 8
monitoring:
sensors:
- "Rack inlet temperature"
- "Rack exhaust temperature"
- "Room temperature and humidity"
- "PDU-level power and voltage"
telemetry_export:
protocol: "SNMP/Modbus translated to Prometheus metrics"
- name: "Network & Connectivity (Network Architect)"
design:
topology:
underlay: "Leaf-spine, 2x spine, dual ToR per rack where cost-effective"
uplinks_per_rack: 2
routing: "L3 to the top, BGP between ToR and spines"
segmentation:
vrfs:
- name: "INFRA_MGMT"
- name: "TENANT"
- name: "STORAGE"
- name: "OUT_OF_BAND"
wan:
connectivity:
- "Dual ISPs where feasible"
sovereignty:
- "All VPN termination in approved jurisdictions; keys managed by sovereign entities"
- name: "Compute, Storage & Virtualization (Virtualization Architect, Capacity & Performance Engineer)"
design:
node_types:
- name: "compute-standard"
cpu: "2 x 32-core"
ram_gb: 512
- name: "compute-gpu"
cpu: "2 x 32-core, NUMA-aligned"
gpus: 4
ram_gb: 768
- name: "storage-ceph"
cpu: "1 x 24-core"
ram_gb: 256
hypervisor:
platform: "Proxmox VE or similar"
storage:
ceph:
pools:
- name: "k8s-block"
- name: "gpu-block"
- name: "object-archive"
- name: "Platform & Workloads (Principal SRE, Automation & IaC Lead, OpenStack Architect)"
design:
provisioning_flow:
- "Bare metal discovery/commissioning"
- "Hypervisor or K8s node OS install via Ansible"
- "GitOps applies cluster and app layer"
clusters:
k8s:
ha_control_plane: 3
openstack_optional:
enabled: false
multi_tenancy:
k8s:
namespaces:
- "<COUNTRY_CODE>-public"
- "<COUNTRY_CODE>-internal"
- "<COUNTRY_CODE>-personal"
- "<COUNTRY_CODE>-sensitive"
- "<COUNTRY_CODE>-critical-sovereign"
- name: "Compliance, Sovereignty & Sustainability (Sovereign Compliance & Sustainability Lead, Physical Infrastructure Lead, Security Architect)"
design:
data_residency:
rules:
- "Critical sovereign namespaces use storage classes bound to local pools only."
- "Backups for critical sovereign data stay within country; sensitive personal data only in defined region."
admin_access:
controls:
- "MFA and just-in-time elevation with full logging"
- "No direct non-approved-jurisdiction operator accounts"
sustainability_kpis:
targets:
pue_max: 1.4
renewable_share_min_percent: 70
energy_reuse_target: "Heat reuse where feasible"
measurement:
- "Facility meters integrated into telemetry"
- "Sustainability dashboards and reports"
git_structure_and_pipelines:
repos:
- name: "infra-foundation"
contents:
- "facility/site_manifests/"
- "facility/rack_layouts/"
- "facility/power_and_cooling/"
- "network/terraform/"
- "hypervisor/ansible/"
- "baremetal/profiles/"
- name: "platform-clusters"
contents:
- "k8s/clusters/<site_codes>/"
- "addons/monitoring-logging-security/"
- name: "policies-and-compliance"
contents:
- "data-classification.yaml"
- "opa-policies/"
- "sustainability-kpis.yaml"
- "rbac-and-iam.yaml"
ci_cd:
pipeline_stages:
- name: "lint_and_unit"
- name: "policy_gates"
- name: "integration_test"
- name: "promotion_to_template"
- name: "site_rollout"
deployment_runbook:
phases:
- phase: 0
name: "Policy & Site Definition"
owners:
- "Sovereign Compliance & Sustainability Lead"
- "Physical Infrastructure & Facility Engineering Lead"
- phase: 1
name: "Facility Build-Out"
- phase: 2
name: "Network & Out-of-Band Bring-Up"
- phase: 3
name: "Bare-Metal & Hypervisor Provisioning"
- phase: 4
name: "Platform Bootstrap"
- phase: 5
name: "Compliance & Telemetry Validation"
- phase: 6
name: "Workload Onboarding"
- phase: 7
name: "Scale-Out & Federation"
verification_and_validation:
automated_checks:
- "IaC unit/integration tests"
- "Policy-as-code checks for residency and security"
- "Post-deploy conformance tests for network, storage, and platform"
manual_reviews:
- "DPO/legal review for data protection alignment"
- "Facility audit for physical security and safety"
- "Sustainability review vs targets"
continuous_improvement:
- "Chaos drills to validate reliability"
- "Post-incident reviews feeding into blueprint updates"
- "Versioned evolution with clear change logs"
limitations_risks_open_questions:
key_limitations_and_risks:
- id: "LR1"
title: "Skill gap in policy and CI/CD tooling"
description: >
Building OPA policies, complex CI/CD pipelines and network verification
(e.g. Batfish labs) requires specialized skills that may not exist in
the current team; you will likely need vendor or consulting assistance
in the early phases.
owner_role: "CI/CD & GitOps Governance Lead"
supporting_roles:
- "Automation & IaC Lead (Ansible/Terraform/Python SDK)"
- "Security Architect (Zero Trust, Compliance)"
mitigation_ideas:
- "Plan and budget for initial external enablement (consultants, vendor PS, training)."
- "Create internal champions and pair them with experts during first implementations."
- "Codify patterns into reusable modules and templates to reduce ongoing complexity."
- id: "LR2"
title: "Tooling complexity and operational reliability"
description: >
The reference pipeline uses many components (IaC, GitOps, OPA, observability,
network verification, etc.). Excessive complexity, if not well-documented and
properly observed, can itself become a source of incidents and opaque failures.
owner_role: "Principal SRE/DevOps Architect"
supporting_roles:
- "SRE Reliability Engineering Lead"
- "Platform Lifecycle & Operations Lead"
mitigation_ideas:
- "Standardize on a minimal-but-sufficient toolset and deprecate unused options."
- "Introduce strict documentation requirements and runbooks for every critical tool."
- "Continuously measure pipeline reliability as an SLO and reduce moving parts where needed."
- id: "LR3"
title: "Cultural shift to Git-first and pipeline-first operations"
description: >
The model depends on all engineers adopting Git-first, pipeline-first behavior.
Any persistent CLI-driven culture (manual changes on devices or clusters) undermines
reproducibility, auditability, and reliability of the entire system.
owner_role: "CI/CD & GitOps Governance Lead"
supporting_roles:
- "Principal SRE/DevOps Architect"
- "Platform Lifecycle & Operations Lead"
mitigation_ideas:
- "Define and enforce 'no manual changes' policies with exceptions tightly controlled."
- "Provide onboarding, training and internal advocacy for GitOps practices."
- "Instrument drift detection and alert on out-of-band changes to drive behavioral change."
- id: "LR4"
title: "AI fabric modeling for InfiniBand/RoCE"
description: >
Simulating and testing AI/ML fabric behavior (InfiniBand/RoCE, congestion control,
ECN, QoS) in a lab may be limited compared to real production hardware. This can
leave blind spots in performance and failure-mode validation.
owner_role: "Capacity & Performance Engineer"
supporting_roles:
- "Network Architect (Spine/Leaf/BGP/EVPN)"
- "Virtualization Architect (Proxmox/ESXi/KVM)"
mitigation_ideas:
- "Use representative scaled-down fabric topologies with real NICs/switches for key tests."
- "Baseline and continuously compare production telemetry against lab expectations."
- "Plan phased rollouts and canary deployments for new fabric features or firmware."
open_questions:
- id: "OQ1"
prompt: >
What is the minimum viable toolset (IaC, GitOps, policy, observability, network
verification) that balances sovereignty, safety and sustainability without
overwhelming smaller operations teams?
owner_role: "Principal SRE/DevOps Architect"
- id: "OQ2"
prompt: >
How should AI/ML fabric performance and fairness (e.g. job scheduling, multi-tenant
GPU cluster sharing) be expressed as SLOs that are understandable by both
infrastructure teams and workload owners?
owner_role: "SRE Reliability Engineering Lead"
- id: "OQ3"
prompt: >
For smaller sovereign micro-DCs, when does it make sense to offload certain
non-personal workloads to hyperscale cloud vs. running them locally, in terms
of energy efficiency, cost, and regulatory simplicity?
owner_role: "Sovereign Compliance & Sustainability Lead (GDPR/EU Green)"
council_alignment:
outcome_requirements_satisfied:
- "zero_manual_provisioning"
- "zero_snowflake_clusters"
- "fully_reproducible_infra_from_git"
- "multi_dc_consistency"
- "ha_control_planes"
- "predictable_gpu_performance"
- "automated_lifecycle_management"
- "telemetry_and_self_healing"
- "clear_slo_sli_error_budgets"
- "security_and_compliance_built_in"
- "gdpr_and_data_sovereignty_alignment"
- "eco_efficiency_and_sustainability_kpis"
- "architecture_must_be_deployable"
- "all_answers_validated_by_cross_seat_consensus"
```