In this episode, Toby and Krisztian kick off an ongoing series exploring the EU cloud and software stack. Following a previous episode on EU digital sovereignty, they have set themselves a challenge: build their side projects entirely on EU-based services. This episode covers hands-on experience with Forgejo for source code management, Scaleway as a cloud provider, and Hanko for authentication. They share honest feedback on what works, what doesn't, and where the gaps are compared to the big American hyperscalers.

Chapters

0:00 Introduction and the EU sovereignty challenge

1:48 Finding EU alternatives: european-alternatives.eu

3:47 Looking for a GitHub replacement

5:50 Forgejo: the open-source Gitea fork

8:27 What works in Forgejo and what doesn't

10:46 Hosting Forgejo on Scaleway

13:48 The gap between self-hosting and a managed service

15:18 Scaleway overview: regions, services and Terraform support

20:35 Scaleway serverless functions and containers

25:02 Service-to-service authentication

28:34 Deploying Forgejo, databases and runners on Scaleway