Build & Operate

DIH Product

Build, run, and manage your own dataspace as a pre-configured managed service — focus on use cases and application development while we remove the dataspace complexity, with full data sovereignty.

Managed dataspace · cloud-agnostic

What is Build & Operate?

Build & Operate is a sandbox that pairs a ready-to-use dataspace with a software development environment, so you can prototype apps powered by dataspace capabilities — such as data-sovereignty protection — without the underlying complexity. Delivered as a pre-configured product, it provides an end-to-end dataspace experience through a friendly UI, letting you deploy and test use cases or applications while building expertise in dataspace technology with the benefits of a managed service. An additional level of trust is provided through T-Systems Digital.ID.

Product offering

Component	Description
Build & Operate Core	Everything needed to run, use, and manage a dataspace. Available in sizes S, M, L, which differ in the number of connectors that can run.
Build & Operate Compute Node	The application layer on which new applications are deployed and developed. Available in sizes S, M, L, XL, which differ in CPU, RAM, and storage.

Build & Operate is completely cloud-agnostic and available for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Public (GCP), Open Telekom Cloud (OTC), and Google Cloud Sovereign (GCS).

Features

• Connectors with Magenta UI — manage data assets, attach policies and restrictions, and handle contract definition and negotiation.
• Operator toolkit — single point of access to the support-layer services (ArgoCD, Grafana, Keycloak, Vault, KubeApps).
• Application orchestration with KubeApps and a catalogue of 1,500+ apps.
• Identity & access management — single sign-on across services via Keycloak, with group- and role-based access rights.
• Monitoring with Grafana and connector health checks.
• Secret management with Vault.
• Federated Catalog and SSI based on the Gaia-X Trust Framework, backed by a Certificate Authority (CA).
• Application management — register and offer third-party applications to dataspace participants.
• Participant management — invite participants, review join requests, and allocate connectors.

Guides

Get started and operate your dataspace with these step-by-step guides:

• Getting started — create a Data Intelligence Hub account and request your dataspace.
• Managing your dataspace — operate your dataspace, edit its details, and manage participants.
• User management — create users and assign access rights with Keycloak.
• Operator toolkit — access and manage the support-layer services.
• Application onboarding — register, access, edit, and delete third-party applications.
• Application deployment (Kubeapps) — deploy applications on the compute node via Kubeapps.
• Vault configuration for Azure — store Azure Blob credentials for EDC data transfer.
• Release notes — version history and component versions.
• FAQs — answers on dataspaces, connectors, and trust.