A couple of months ago I decided to run an experiment: build a clean-room implementation of LINSTOR from scratch, working only from its references and public API types. It started as a Friday joke. I wanted to spend as little time on it as possible, leave it running in the background, and see where it went. The point was to find out how far a modern model can get on its own, with no human in the loop.
My name is Andrei Kvapil, and I’m the founder of Ænix — we build Cozystack, an open source cloud platform, and we help companies build infrastructure. We’re a fully remote company: 15 people, several teams (two reliability teams, a development team, marketing, back office, and so on), spread across several time zones. We started out living in GitHub Projects, but the moment we began to grow we ran straight into the limits of our own process: tasks scattered across boards and chats, half of the morning sync spent figuring out what was even in flight, and unplanned work eating entire days without leaving a trace anywhere.
Kubernetes platforms face the same challenge Linux solved decades ago: how to let users install only what they need and build community-driven package ecosystems.
In Cozystack, we built an APT-like package system on FluxCD and OCI artifacts. The operator introduces Package and PackageSource CRDs - analogous to dpkg and sources.list - with pluggable repositories, dependency resolution, and content-based versioning.
They say it all began rather dully.
First, artificial intelligence learned to write code. Then it learned to write it better than most people. And then a thing came to light that the industry had somehow overlooked for decades: the most expensive resource in open source isn’t development. Not review. Not even the CI devouring data-center budgets. The most expensive thing turned out to be the one there were never enough people for.
An easy and visual explanation that demonstrates what happens when you create a new pod in Kubernetes. It shows how the apiserver, scheduler, controller-manager, and kubelet work together, operating on the same Kubernetes resource. @kcdczechslovak5840
#347: Andrei Kvapil has been around Kubernetes since the early days. Contributor to Cilium, Kubevirt, and a handful of other projects you probably use without realizing it. He is also the maintainer of Cozystack, a CNCF sandbox project, and the CEO of Aenix, the company behind it.
In our previous article, we showed you how to build a platform that deploys multiple managed applications through a unified API and UI…
