What is Haven?

Every municipality uses applications. To run these applications, municipalities rely on their own IT infrastructure. However, this infrastructure varies greatly from one municipality to another. While one municipality may still run many things locally, another may be fully committed to cloud solutions. This difference means that applications often have to be adapted to the specific infrastructure of each municipality, which hinders collaboration and the rapid implementation of new applications.

Haven offers a solution for this. Haven is a standard for platform-independent cloud hosting that allows municipalities to run applications without modifying their existing IT infrastructures. This makes it easier for municipalities to develop applications together and deploy them quickly and uniformly across multiple municipalities.

How does Haven work?

Haven works by providing a platform-independent layer for hosting applications, allowing these applications to run smoothly without any modifications to the local infrastructure.

Applications within Haven are packaged in containers. A container is essentially a 'package' that consists of the application and all the components it needs to run. Thanks to the uniform design of these containers, they work the same way wherever they are launched, on any platform and any operating system. Haven is based on Kubernetes, an open-source platform for managing containerized applications. Kubernetes handles the automatic deployment, scalability, and management of these containers, making Haven a flexible and scalable infrastructure for applications.

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The benefits of Haven for municipalities

The result when municipalities use Haven? Lower costs, less vendor lock-in, and more flexibility in IT management. This allows municipalities to collaborate more effectively and scale their digital services faster and more easily, regardless of the infrastructure they use. Haven offers the following benefits for municipalities:

• Platform independence: Haven makes it possible to host applications regardless of a municipality's existing IT infrastructure. Whether a municipality works locally, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment, applications can run anywhere without needing to modify the infrastructure.

• Reusability of applications: thanks to Haven, applications developed for one municipality can be easily reused by others. This promotes collaboration and makes it possible to set up and roll out new digital solutions faster.

• Cost savings: municipalities save costs because they do not have to adapt their infrastructure for every application. Furthermore, jointly developing and reusing applications leads to lower development and management costs.

• Security and scalability: Haven provides a secure and scalable environment, supported by proven technologies like Kubernetes. This means that applications can be deployed reliably and securely, while being able to scale flexibly as demand increases.

• Reduced vendor dependency: because Haven is open-source, municipalities have more control over their IT solutions and are less dependent on specific vendors, which provides greater flexibility and autonomy.

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Would you like to know more about what Haven can do for your municipality? Please contact us by calling 088 4227 227 or emailing info@fundaments.nl.