Digital Sovereignty Training in Bhutan

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is designed for 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 onsite) is designed for enterprise leaders who wish 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 relevant laws, assess compliance risks, and implement governance frameworks for cross-border data management.

This instructor-led, live training in Bhutan (online or onsite) is designed for database administrators and developers who wish 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 Bhutan (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate to advanced-level IT leaders, compliance officers, and digital transformation managers who wish 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 Bhutan (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 Bhutan (online or onsite) targets DevOps engineers and infrastructure architects who intend to automate the provisioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management of private AI clusters built on EXO.

This instructor-led, live training in Bhutan (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 offers repository management, code review, issue tracking, and CI/CD integration. It is becoming an increasingly popular alternative to GitHub and GitLab.com for teams requiring full control over their source code without third-party terms of service or export restrictions.

GitLab Self-Managed offers an on-premises deployment of GitLab's full-featured DevSecOps platform, encompassing source code management, CI/CD pipelines, container registries, security scanning, and monitoring capabilities. It stands as the premier choice for organizations seeking the complete GitLab feature suite without relying on SaaS services or allowing data to exit their secure network boundaries.

This instructor-led, live training in Bhutan (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 Bhutan (online or onsite) targets developers and technical teams who aim to build and operate private agentic AI solutions on internal infrastructure using Ollama and open models.

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 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 (available online or onsite) targets cloud professionals who aim 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 built on the Nix package manager, offering fully declarative and reproducible system configuration. By describing entire operating systems as pure functions, NixOS eliminates configuration drift and enables atomic rollbacks, making it ideal for sovereign infrastructure that must be auditable and exactly reproducible.

This live, instructor-led training—available online or on-site—is tailored for IT professionals aiming to assess and implement open source office suites as alternatives to proprietary solutions in corporate environments.

Upon completion, participants will be able to compare different suites, orchestrate migrations, configure deployment, manage compatibility issues, enable collaboration, and drive user adoption.

Ollama is an open-source tool for running large language models locally on consumer and enterprise hardware. It abstracts model quantization, GPU allocation, and API serving into a single command-line interface, enabling organizations to self-host LLMs like Llama, Mistral, and Qwen without sending prompts or data to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google.

This instructor-led, live training in Bhutan (online or onsite) is designed for network engineers and infrastructure professionals who wish to leverage 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 wish to design, deploy, and manage private OpenStack cloud infrastructure for enterprise environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to understand OpenStack architecture, deploy private cloud infrastructure, manage compute and storage resources, implement security with Keystone, and apply enterprise best practices.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets project management and IT professionals who aim to deploy and manage open-source platforms that ensure data sovereignty while supporting a wide range of project methodologies.

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

This instructor-led, live training in Bhutan (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 Bhutan (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, improve security and observability, and build an operational plan for ongoing support.

This instructor-led, live training in Bhutan (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT leaders, compliance professionals, security teams, and enterprise architects who wish to leverage sovereign AI principles and governance practices. The objective is 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 empowers participants to design, deploy, and manage a fully sovereign digital infrastructure stack from the ground up. 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—eliminating any dependency on Google, Microsoft, AWS, or proprietary SaaS solutions.

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

Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use, self-hosted monitoring tool that tracks the availability of websites, services, and infrastructure. It acts as a replacement for Pingdom, Datadog Synthetics, and UptimeRobot for teams desiring control over their monitoring data. 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 (online or onsite) is aimed at technical professionals who wish 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 able to deploy Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton, implement security hardening, configure enterprise features, and scale deployments for organisational workloads.

This instructor-led live training in Bhutan (online or onsite) is aimed at security engineers and system administrators who wish 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 leading open-source VPN protocols. Operating your own VPN server guarantees that no third-party provider can log traffic metadata, insert advertisements, or adhere to foreign data requests. This training encompasses both protocols, addressing various threat models and performance needs.

Wazuh is an open-source security platform offering unified XDR and SIEM capabilities for threat detection, integrity monitoring, incident response, and compliance. It consolidates endpoint telemetry into a self-managed analysis engine, serving as a viable 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 forges such as Gitea and Forgejo. It delivers a lightweight, Docker-native CI/CD experience, eliminating the complexity and licensing costs associated with enterprise CI platforms.

Zammad is a contemporary, web-based, open-source helpdesk and customer support platform. It consolidates tickets from email, chat, phone, and social media into a unified queue, offering a self-hosted alternative to Zendesk, Freshdesk, and ServiceNow that ensures customer data remains within your own infrastructure.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) is designed for intermediate support managers and system administrators looking to adopt Zammad as a self-hosted, data-sovereign ticketing system in place of cloud-based helpdesk platforms.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Install Zammad using packages or Docker with PostgreSQL.
• Configure email, chat, and API channels for incoming tickets.
• Design workflows, escalation paths, and SLA timers.
• Establish role-based access controls, groups, and organizations.
• Integrate with knowledge bases, reporting tools, and webhooks.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live lab environment.

Customization Options

• To arrange customized training for this course, please contact us directly.

This instructor-led live training in Bhutan (online or onsite) targets intermediate to advanced security professionals eager 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 offers email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and file sharing within a unified web interface. It serves as a direct, self-managed alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.