News, announcements, community stories, and insights on open-source digital infrastructure in higher education.
A quick guide to signing the CLA and starting your first contribution to openDesk.
How openDesk Edu integrates with the German national research federation DFN-AAI as a SAML Service Provider proxy via Keycloak β and a call to action for the community to build a shared evaluation instance that lowers the barrier for every institution.
How openDesk Edu encrypts 126 secrets in Git using SOPS with age encryption and decrypts them at deploy time via an ArgoCD Config Management Plugin sidecar β no Vault, no External Secrets Operator, no proprietary infrastructure required.
Explore the interactive openDesk Edu service landscape: a visual map of all integrated open-source services across domains β from core platform and education to security and compliance.
How openDesk Edu helps universities break free from vendor lock-in, reduce costs by 80-90%, ensure GDPR compliance, and deploy a production-ready ecosystem of 25 integrated open-source services.
How we extended the openDesk intercom-service to support OpenCloud, SOGo, and ILIAS, and why we urge ZenDiS and the community to establish a formal consensus on common development patterns.
How the openDesk Edu OpenSpec methodology enables organizations to build fully sovereign digital workplaces using integrated open-source ecosystemsβbreaking free from vendor lock-in while maintaining or improving service quality.
Discover how openDesk Edu transforms educational institutions with 25 integrated open-source services, seamless SSO, and German data protection compliance.
Thank you to everyone who participated in yesterday's openDesk Community of Practice. Here is a summary of the session covering key topics, documentation links, and the survey for the next meeting.
As openDesk Edu grows past 30 services, our single monolithic ArgoCD Application hits its limits. This post compares App of Apps and ApplicationSet patterns, weighing pros and cons for an education deployment targeting multiple clusters and environments.
