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STACKIT Fundamentals

The entry-level path into STACKIT: the platform vision, the Portal, the full service portfolio, and hands-on product fundamentals. The common starting point for every role-specific path.

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STACKIT Introduction

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STACKIT Introduction

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An introduction to STACKIT's sovereign cloud vision, its position within the Schwarz Group, and the key customer benefits and services.
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The sovereign European cloud provider behind the framework, delivering IaaS and PaaS from German and Austrian data centers with full digital independence.

Course Overview

Section titled “Course Overview”

An entry-level course that sets up everything else in STACKIT University. It explains STACKIT’s place inside the Schwarz Group and Schwarz Digits, walks through the three pillars behind the sovereign cloud promise — Scalable, Secure, Sovereign — and unpacks what each one actually guarantees in practice, from EU-only data centers to independence from foreign investors. From there it moves into the architecture itself: the IaaS and PaaS layers, how resources are managed through the Portal, API, CLI, and Terraform, and how the 6R framework (rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, retire) maps existing workloads onto STACKIT services.

It’s built for anyone who needs a working mental model of STACKIT before going deeper — new customers, new partners, or new hires — so that later courses on the portfolio, portal, or sales don’t have to re-explain the basics. By the end, you’ll be able to place STACKIT correctly against hyperscalers and on-premise alternatives, and know which migration strategy fits a given workload.

What You’ll Learn

Section titled “What You’ll Learn”
  • Explain STACKIT’s relationship to the Schwarz Group and why that backing translates into financial and operational stability
  • Describe what “Scalable, Secure, Sovereign” concretely guarantees — not just the slogan
  • Distinguish STACKIT’s IaaS and PaaS layers and know which one a given use case calls for
  • Match an existing workload to the right 6R migration strategy
  • Navigate the STACKIT Portal, APIs, CLI, and Terraform provider as entry points for managing resources

Modules

Section titled “Modules”
  • STACKIT and the Schwarz Group
  • Mission, Vision, and Core Values
  • Key Benefits and Strategic Value
  • Big Picture: STACKIT Architecture and Services
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STACKIT Portal

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STACKIT Portal

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A fast, video-centric tour of the STACKIT Portal: IAM and resource concepts, project setup, the cost calculator, and how to launch IaaS and PaaS services.
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The sovereign European cloud provider behind the framework, delivering IaaS and PaaS from German and Austrian data centers with full digital independence.

Course Overview

Section titled “Course Overview”

A short, video-centric course that gets you comfortable in the STACKIT Portal: how projects, resources, and IAM tie together, how the interface is laid out, and how to assign users to a project. From there it moves into using the Portal day to day — reading full cost transparency into a project, choosing infrastructure services, and setting up platform services and runtimes — so you leave able to actually operate in the Portal, not just recognize it.

It’s designed as a quick second step right after the STACKIT Introduction course, before diving into the full service portfolio or a specific role path.

What You’ll Learn

Section titled “What You’ll Learn”
  • Explain STACKIT’s IAM and resource concept and how projects fit together
  • Navigate the Portal interface and assign users to a project
  • Read cost transparency data and use the cost calculator
  • Set up IaaS servers and select infrastructure services in the Portal
  • Launch platform services, runtimes, and PaaS components
  • Know where to reach STACKIT Support from the Portal

Modules

Section titled “Modules”
  • Portal Fundamentals
  • Portal Services
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STACKIT Portfolio

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STACKIT Portfolio

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An overview of STACKIT's full service portfolio, from availability zones and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS to data, AI, security, and supporting services.
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The sovereign European cloud provider behind the framework, delivering IaaS and PaaS from German and Austrian data centers with full digital independence.

Course Overview

Section titled “Course Overview”

A guided tour of STACKIT’s portfolio at a glance: what Availability Zones are and how they underpin reliability, how to tell IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS apart and pick the right one, and how cloud-native applications actually run on STACKIT’s runtime offerings. From there it covers modern data and AI services, security and compliance, and the supporting services and interfaces (Portal and APIs) that tie the whole portfolio together.

It’s the third step of the STACKIT Fundamentals path — after the Introduction and the Portal — and gives every other STACKIT University path a shared map of “what exists” before going deep on any one part of it.

What You’ll Learn

Section titled “What You’ll Learn”
  • Explain what STACKIT is and describe its core portfolio areas
  • Understand Availability Zones and how STACKIT ensures reliability and high availability
  • Distinguish IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and know when to use each
  • Describe how cloud-native applications run on STACKIT runtime offerings
  • Place data, AI, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure protection within the STACKIT ecosystem
  • Get a high-level view of the STACKIT Portal and APIs as interfaces to manage services

Modules

Section titled “Modules”
  • STACKIT’s Portfolio at a Glance
  • Cloud Infrastructure Fundamentals
  • STACKIT Services for Application Deployment
  • Platform & Developer Experience
  • Modern Data & AI Services
  • Security & Compliance
  • STACKIT Supporting Services
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STACKIT Product Fundamentals

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STACKIT Product Fundamentals

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A deep, hands-on tour of the STACKIT product portfolio: compute, storage, networking, runtime platforms, databases, security, and AI services.
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The sovereign European cloud provider behind the framework, delivering IaaS and PaaS from German and Austrian data centers with full digital independence.

Course Overview

Section titled “Course Overview”

A technical, hands-on tour of the full STACKIT product portfolio across ten modules: compute (VM sizing, GPU workloads, custom images), storage and network architecture, the Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Foundry runtime platforms, database services (PostgreSQL Flex, MongoDB Flex, MariaDB, Redis, OpenSearch), RabbitMQ-based messaging, observability, security services (KMS, Secrets Manager, IAM, audit logging), developer automation (CLI, SDKs, Terraform), and STACKIT’s data and AI offerings including managed AI Model Serving. Every module pairs an architecture explanation with concrete CLI, API, and Terraform examples rather than staying at the conceptual level.

This is the technical deep dive for people who will actually build and run production workloads on STACKIT — cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, technical consultants, and teams migrating existing systems. It assumes you already have the fundamentals and an active STACKIT project, and it’s built around the tool-selection and configuration decisions those roles face daily: which provisioning method fits a task, how to tune storage and database performance, and how to wire security and observability into a deployment rather than bolting them on afterward.

What You’ll Learn

Section titled “What You’ll Learn”
  • Understand the technical architecture and internals behind STACKIT’s core services
  • Provision and configure resources using the CLI, API, and Terraform
  • Implement security controls with Key Management Service (KMS) and Secrets Manager
  • Operate production-grade Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Foundry deployments
  • Configure messaging, observability, and monitoring for running workloads
  • Integrate STACKIT AI Model Serving for LLM-backed applications

Modules

Section titled “Modules”
  • Computing
  • Storage Architecture
  • Network Architecture
  • Runtime Platforms
  • Database Services
  • Messaging & Event-Driven Systems
  • Observability & Monitoring
  • Security Services
  • Developer Platform & Automation
  • Data & AI
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