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Scopes and versions

Infrastructure Offerings

For infrastructure offerings SCS provides a certification framework consisting of six different kinds of certificates of varying scope. These scopes can be sorted into two dimensions:

  1. certification level, of which there are three:
    • SCS-compatible
    • SCS-open
    • SCS-sovereign
  2. cloud layer, of which there are two:
    • infastructure as a service (IaaS)
    • Kubernetes as a service (KaaS)

So, for instance, a certificate can have the scope SCS-compatible IaaS or SCS-sovereign KaaS.

Each scope corresponds to a set of standards. As these standards progress, so do the scopes, and we keep track of this by versioning. Each version undergoes a lifecycle of Draft, Stable, and Deprecated, and we aim to keep at most one version stable at the same time, with the exception of a transition period of 4 to 6 weeks.

The standard SCS-0004 describes the certification of infrastructure offerings in depth.

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Certification of Integrators

For Integrators and Service Companies the existing framework for infrastructure offerings is used to do a competence and quality assesment. Integrators can currently be certified in the SCS-compatible IaaS scope. The standard SCS-0007 describes the Integrator certification in depth.