<p>In this episode Karsten Hohage, Johannes Ott and Maximilian Techritz talk about Open Managed Control Planes – an open source project that allows you to orchestrate any aspect of a cloud landscape using one declarative API.</p>



<p>Johannes Ott and Maximilian Techritz, who are both software engineers at SAP, talk about Open Managed Control Planes – an open source project that allows you to orchestrate any aspect of a cloud landscape using one declarative API. This is made possible by harmonizing different open source tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Johannes and Maximilian will show why this project solves reoccurring challenges in enterprises, how it works and what organizations need to get started.</p>



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<p><strong>Maximilian Techritz</strong></p>



<p>Maximilian Techritz is a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at SAP. He is one of the contributors to Open Managed Control Planes and shares excitement around tools in the Kubernetes ecosystem to a growing community within SAP and externally.</p>



<p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/helge-deller/?originalSubdomain=de" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilian-techritz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilian-techritz</a> </a></p>



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<p><strong>Johannes Ott</strong></p>



<p>Johannes Ott is a Software Engineer and Developer Advocate at SAP and one of the contributors to Open Managed Control Planes. He actively shares best practices around Infrastructure as Data and promotes tools around the Kubernetes ecosystem within SAP and the open source community.</p>



<p>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbennee/?originalSubdomain=uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-ott-00a74949/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-ott-00a74949/</a></a></p>



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<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Host:</strong></h4>



<p id="block-8a35e260-02e9-46d4-b577-8f76035e8027"><strong>Karsten Hohage –&nbsp;</strong>Product Expert in Technology and Innovation (T&I)</p>


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<p></p><p>The post <a href="https://podcast.opensap.info/open-source-way/2025/09/17/openmcp/">OpenMCP</a> first appeared on <a href="https://podcast.opensap.info/open-source-way">The Open Source Way</a>.</p>

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