𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧.

VMware Exit Lab starts in under two hours: 10:00–14:00 CEST, Techspace Eiswerk, Köpenicker Straße 40-41.

Four hours, hands-on: build a cloud on Cozystack, move VMs off VMware, then run AI and GPU workloads on the same stack.

𝐂𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧? 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞. Same lab, same questions, from wherever you are.

Timur Tukaev @tym83 leads the session. Bring your hardest migration question.

👉 Register: https://u.to/eu-bIg

#Cozystack #VMwareExit #Kubernetes #Berlin

One table, twelve chairs. Copenhagen, tomorrow.
We picked a small room at Soho Network in the Meatpacking District on purpose.

A group this size can skip the presentation and get straight to the keyboard.

Over four hours you’ll build a Cozystack cloud with your own hands, migrate VMs away from VMware, and run AI and GPU workloads on that same platform.

28 October, 10:00–14:00 CET at Soho Network, Flæsketorvet 68, in the Meatpacking District.
Remote? You can follow the lab online.

See the alternative working before the next VMware renewal lands on your desk.
👉 https://u.to/eu-bIg

#Cozystack #VMwareExit #Kubernetes #Copenhagen

Hi everyone, if you'd like to add anything to tomorrow's Cozystack community meeting agenda, feel free to reach out to @vsop78 or simply drop your ideas in the comments

When: Tomorrow at 18:00-19:00 (CET) / 17:00-18:00 (UTC)
Where: Zoom
Link to join in:
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/93845795591?password=a263fc60-ea72-41c8-84c8-a00d683ecee5
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YObSKsQ3Gzi1gSLPlUp-PbSYEeVkoyzY20M_hXKVhq4/edit?tab=t.0

This meeting is free and open to everyone!
Come and join us!

From theory to code. Part 2.

Two years ago, Timur Tukaev argued that Kubernetes should be treated less like a finished product and more like the Linux kernel: a foundation for building different distributions.

In the first part of his research, he put that idea to the test by building an experimental toolkit and several demo Kubernetes distributions.

Now comes the second part.

This time, Timur @tym83 takes a closer look at kubepkg, an open-source package manager based on cozypkg, originally developed for Cozystack, and designed to work across Kubernetes distributions and clusters, much like apt does on Debian.

Built on ordinary Helm charts, it explores how to manage dependencies, installation order, upgrades and rollbacks without reinventing the tools Kubernetes already has.

It's still an independent technical research project, driven by the same question: how much of the Linux distribution model can actually work in Kubernetes?

Read Part 2:
https://aenix.io/blog/2026/10/kubepkg-debian-style-kubernetes-package-manager/

Amsterdam, tomorrow.

A city built below sea level knows the rule: when the water keeps rising, you build your way out of it before the next storm.

VMware renewals work the same way.

Tomorrow at Mindspace Dam, a few minutes’ walk from Dam Square, we build. Over four hours you’ll set up a cloud on Cozystack, move VMs off VMware and run AI and GPU workloads on the same open-source platform.

Friday, 30 October, 10:00–14:00 CET. Can’t get to the city centre? The lab is open online as well.

👉 Join the event

#Cozystack #VMwareExit #Kubernetes #Amsterdam

🖼 Catch you at the 76th Cozystack community meeting today!

When: Today at 18:00-19:00 (CET) / 17:00-18:00 (UTC)
Where: Zoom
Link to join in:
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/93845795591?password=a263fc60-ea72-41c8-84c8-a00d683ecee5

This meeting is free and open to everyone!
Come and join us!

Minutes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YObSKsQ3Gzi1gSLPlUp-PbSYEeVkoyzY20M_hXKVhq4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ygb3chatmgn2

📢 Agenda and Notes:
- Project updates and news


🎤 Open Floor:
- Milestone = Release with automatization CI https://github.com/cozystack/community/issues/108
- Proposal (draft): release channels (edge / candidate / fast / stable / LTS) and a rotating Release Team that owns them https://github.com/cozystack/community/issues/120
- [nbykov] Decouple Cozystack from any specific linux distro/k8s variant? So that the only requirement would be a somehow running k8s cluster.
- Would it require pre-checks?
- Maybe a specific set of labels on worker and control-plane nodes?
- Should Talos stuff be moved to a separate repo?

🗓Do not miss Cozystack community meetings:

https://webcal.prod.itx.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/lfsixxnFWxbvsyEuC2

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/cozystack?view=month

💡Have a feature idea or design proposal for Cozystack?
Submit your Pull Request here: https://github.com/cozystack/community/pulls 🚀

Blockstor — a new storage control plane for Cozystack, written from scratch in Go.
LINSTOR-compatible: it keeps the LINSTOR CSI driver and Piraeus operator, and uses the Kubernetes API as the single communication plane between controllers and satellite nodes.

Andrei @kvaps walks through the migration tool, the blockstore CLI, synchronous DRBD replicas, RWX via NFS-Ganesha for AI workloads, and block-level live migration for VMs.

Plus the roadmap: BYOK encryption and a QEMU/QCOW2 backend.

Ends with Q&A: API server crashes, leader election, and running alongside LINSTOR.

▶️ https://youtu.be/EwDG6lNOqKc

#Cozystack #Blockstor #LINSTOR #DRBD #KubernetesStorage #CloudNative #OpenSource #Highlights

The CNCF TOC has voted to move Cozystack from Sandbox to Incubation: 8 of 11 TOC members in favor, none against. The vote is formally still open and the official CNCF announcement will come later, but the main thing has happened.

Thank you to everyone who got us here: contributors, maintainers, the users who shared their experience with the TOC, and everyone who has been with us in this chat. This milestone is as much yours as ours.

Vote: https://github.com/cncf/toc/issues/1916#issuecomment-6523387235

🎥 Cozystack community meeting 2026-10-29

https://youtu.be/MbQOSdFYR48

Cozystack: Free Cloud Platform based on Kubernetes | CNCF Sandbox Project

Minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YObSKsQ3Gzi1gSLPlUp-PbSYEeVkoyzY20M_hXKVhq4/

📢 Agenda and Notes:
- Project updates and news
- v1.7.0 just got released!
- https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack/releases/tag/v1.7.0


🎤 Open Floor:
- Milestone = Release with automatization CI https://github.com/cozystack/community/issues/108
- Proposal (draft): release channels (edge / candidate / fast / stable / LTS) and a rotating Release Team that owns them https://github.com/cozystack/community/issues/120
- TODO(phases):
- Implement new backport logic, according to merged @daniil
- https://github.com/cozystack/community/pull/114
- Channel for #cozystack-dev in CNCF slack for developers timur.tukaev@aenix.io
- Enhance upstream planning Andrei Kvapil @kvaps and @nbykov
- Roadmap
- Triaging
- Milestones on GitHub or alternatives
- Create SIGs

🖖 Share your enhancement and architecture proposals by opening a PR at https://github.com/cozystack/community/pulls

🫵 Join the community:
Telegram group t.me/cozystack
Slack group https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C06L3CPRVN1
(Get invite at https://slack.kubernetes.io)

Cozystack resources:
https://cozystack.io
https://cozystack.io/docs/get-started
https://cozystack.io/blog
https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack

📅 Subscribe to our community meetings calendar: https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/cozystack

🗓 Add meetings to your calendar: https://webcal.prod.itx.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/lfsixxnFWxbvsyEuC2

https://youtu.be/MbQOSdFYR48

Talk recordings from DevOpsDays Almaty 2026 are now live.

A rare one: @kvaps presented in the event’s local language rather than English.
To listen in English, switch the audio track in the YouTube player settings (⚙️ → Audio track → English).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6F6B6skjwA

Meet us at booth #305 — KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026

Ænix is bringing Cozystack: a CNCF Incubating project that turns bare metal into a private cloud — VMs, managed Kubernetes, databases and GPU under one API, on any Linux distro. Apache 2.0, no per-core fees, pricing that follows physical nodes.

Leaving VMware, retiring OpenStack, or building an AI platform on your own GPUs?
Timur @tym83 is on the floor — come talk it through.
Upstream components, no proprietary forks: if it runs on Cozystack, it runs anywhere.

📍 Booth #305
🔗 aenix.io

#KubeCon #CloudNativeCon #Cozystack #Ænix #Kubernetes #CNCF #OpenSource

Meet us at booth #318 — CloudFest Americas 2026

Ænix is bringing Cozystack: a turnkey, hyperscaler-class cloud you run under your own brand.

Kubernetes, Linux & Windows VMs, managed databases, S3, GPU and LLM inference — on your own metal, Apache 2.0, no per-core licensing.

Leaving VMware, replacing OpenStack, or selling GPU capacity?
Come talk through the economics with us.
Andrei Kvapil @kvaps is on the floor and up for a coffee.

📍 Booth #318
🔗 See the portal live, no signup: aenix.io/demo

#CloudFestAmericas #Cozystack #AEnix #Kubernetes #CloudNative #OpenSource

Full-Stack Observability in Cozystack: Metrics, Logs and Traces

🔭 Setting up production observability for Kubernetes typically means: Prometheus (or VictoriaMetrics) for metrics, Loki (or similar) for logs, a tracing backend and OpenTelemetry Collector for distributed traces, Grafana for visualization, Alertmanager for alerts, exporters, RBAC to isolate tenants, retention policies, storage sizing… You’re looking at a week of YAML before you see your first dashboard. And multi-tenant isolation? That’s another week.

📦 Cozystack ships a pre-configured monitoring stack (VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, Grafana, Fluent Bit, and Alerta) at both platform and tenant levels. Optional distributed tracing adds VictoriaTraces and a per-tenant OpenTelemetry Collector. Enable monitoring to get dashboards; configure tracing when your workloads need it. No need to assemble the observability infrastructure yourself.

Read the full article on the Cozystack blog👇
https://cozystack.io/blog/2026/11/cozystack-full-stack-observability/

Live VMware → Cozystack migration with Forklift, from our community meeting.

Andrei @kvaps shows the full path: connect a vSphere source, fetch the VM list, import — shutdown, disk snapshot, transfer, Cozystack entities created automatically. EFI and SATA bus translated on the way in.

Open source. The VMware exit, demonstrated, not promised.

▶️ https://youtu.be/EFSIS_vPcaU

#Cozystack #VMware #Forklift #KubeVirt #OpenSource #Highlights

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐡 #𝟑𝟏𝟖 — 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔!

Ænix is bringing Cozystack — an open-source platform for building hyperscaler-class clouds under your own brand.

Kubernetes, VMs, managed databases, S3, and GPU workloads — all on your own infrastructure.

Come talk with us.

Timur @tym83 is at KubeCon North America — booth #305, in his own words from the show floor.
VMware exit, sovereign cloud, selling GPU and AI capacity on your own metal — that’s what people keep stopping to talk about.
If you’re in Salt Lake City, come find him.

Hi everyone, if you'd like to add anything to tomorrow's Cozystack community meeting agenda, feel free to reach out to @vsop78 or simply drop your ideas in the comments

When: Tomorrow at 18:00-19:00 (CET) / 17:00-18:00 (UTC)
Where: Zoom
Link to join in:
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/93845795591?password=a263fc60-ea72-41c8-84c8-a00d683ecee5
Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YObSKsQ3Gzi1gSLPlUp-PbSYEeVkoyzY20M_hXKVhq4/edit?tab=t.0

This meeting is free and open to everyone!
Come and join us!

🚀 Cozystack v1.7.0 is now available

The release was published on October 29, 2026.

This release removes several of the usual reasons teams give for putting off a move to the platform.
It is aimed at those who already run Proxmox VE and want to keep it, those leaving VMware and wondering how to bring their virtual machines along, and those who cannot expose a database without encryption or back up anything other than PostgreSQL.

🧿The upgrade surface is large.
Running clusters change behavior in ways that require preparation,
so read the upgrade section before applying the release rather than after🙏

Read the full release information on the Cozystack blog👇
https://cozystack.io/blog/2026/11/cozystack-1-7-arm-proxmox-vmware-migrations/

🖼 Catch you at the 77th Cozystack community meeting today!

When: Today at 18:00-19:00 (CET) / 17:00-18:00 (UTC)
Where: Zoom
Link to join in:
https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/93845795591?password=a263fc60-ea72-41c8-84c8-a00d683ecee5

This meeting is free and open to everyone!
Come and join us!

Minutes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YObSKsQ3Gzi1gSLPlUp-PbSYEeVkoyzY20M_hXKVhq4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ygb3chatmgn2

📢 Agenda and Notes:
- Project updates and news
- (substrate): Proxmox integration status


🎤 Open Floor:
- [nbykov] Decouple Cozystack from any specific linux distro/k8s variant? So that the only requirement would be a somehow running k8s cluster.
- Would it require pre-checks?
- Maybe a specific set of labels on worker and control-plane nodes?
- Should Talos stuff be moved to a separate repo?

🗓Do not miss Cozystack community meetings:

https://webcal.prod.itx.linuxfoundation.org/lfx/lfsixxnFWxbvsyEuC2

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/cozystack?view=month

💡Have a feature idea or design proposal for Cozystack?
Submit your Pull Request here: https://github.com/cozystack/community/pulls 🚀