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Master
Operate with autonomy
MASTER empowers organizations to gain real autonomy through a guided, transparent model. With our Managed Open Source approach and Technical Hubs 2.0, teams learn, rebuild, and evolve CobolCloud systems with confidence — ensuring their independence remains structured, sustainable, and secure.
A Technical Hub 2.0 is a structured environment — both organizational and technical — where teams progressively gain mastery over CobolCloud software and its source code, building the knowledge to secure and operate their own COBOL applications independently. Each Hub combines shared tools, governed practices, and validated builds to ensure autonomy develops within a safe and transparent framework.
A Technical Hub 2.0 can be set up internally or operated via a trusted third party. In both cases, it follows the same structured path to autonomy, under CobolCloud’s moderation and validation.
MASTER introduces a new path beyond the binary world of proprietary lock-in and unmanaged open source. With our Managed Open Source model, source code is not only made available but also structured, studied, and continuously improved by you — within a secure and validated framework.
Level 1
Factory Activation
The journey begins with the installation of a Technical Hub 2.0, either inside the organization or through a partner. Interconnected with CobolCloud, the Hub is both a local mirror and a learning ground. At this level, teams gain:
- An overview of the architecture of a CobolCloud distribution.
- Visibility into the different software modules that compose it.
- The capability to rebuild a distribution using CobolCloud’s official tools and methods.
CobolCloud remains the ultimate moderator and validator, ensuring every rebuild is consistent and secure. This first level provides assurance: the environment can always be reinstalled and kept coherent — independently, but never in isolation.
Level 2
Code Mastery & Adaptation
The second stage deepens autonomy. Within the Technical Hub 2.0, teams move from observation to intervention: studying CobolCloud components, understanding their inner workings, and learning how to adapt them. At this level, organizations can:
- Fix bugs.
- Adjust functions.
- Add new options.
Every modification is tested and validated within the Hub, under CobolCloud’s supervision. This structured process ensures that autonomy grows safely, without chaos, while gradually reducing dependency on external providers.
Level 3
Core Engineering & Technical Sovereignty
The highest level of MASTER is true technical sovereignty. Teams, trained within the Hub, gain the skills to intervene in the very core of CobolCloud tools. By mastering advanced techniques such as parsing, they can structurally extend the software — adding entirely new features, ensuring continuity, and preparing systems for decades to come.
Here, the Hub evolves from a place of adaptation to a space of co-creation. Organizations achieve the deepest possible autonomy, while CobolCloud safeguards coherence, innovation, and security.
MASTER is not about breaking ties. It prepares lasting independence — step by step — under CobolCloud’s structured guidance, turning organizations into confident actors able to sustain and evolve their COBOL systems on their own terms.
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Talk to a CobolCloud expert — and discover how MASTER, through our Technical Hubs 2.0, builds lasting autonomy and freedom from vendor lock-in.