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Hi! I’m Andrei Kvapil CEO of Ænix and developer of Cozystack, an open source platform and framework for building cloud infrastructure. In this article I’ll walk through the way we deliver applications to Kubernetes, explain why regular GitOps can be awkward in local development, an show how the new tool cozyhr fixes those pain points. The article targets engineers who already know Helm and Flux.
First, I’ll introduce Cozystack, as it’s important for the context. Cozystack is a cloud platform that lets you run and offer managed services — databases, VMs, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Cozystack takes care of the full life‑cycle of every service.
Hi! I’m Andrei Kvapil CEO of Ænix and developer of Cozystack, an open source platform and framework for building cloud infrastructure. In this article I’ll walk through the way we deliver applications to Kubernetes, explain why regular GitOps can be awkward in local development, an show how the new tool cozypkg fixes those pain points. The article targets engineers who already know Helm and Flux.
First, I’ll introduce Cozystack, as it’s important for the context. Cozystack is a cloud platform that lets you run and offer managed services — databases, VMs, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Cozystack takes care of the full life‑cycle of every service.
Hello everyone! I’m Andrey Kvapil, CEO of Ænix and developer of Cozystack, an open-source platform and framework for building cloud infrastructure. In this article, I want to share my perspective on how modern cloud patterns have transformed infrastructure approaches, the evolving role of service providers and public clouds in this landscape, and most importantly, how virtualization’s purpose has fundamentally changed in today’s infrastructure stack.
Modern applications rely on an ever-growing stack of technologies: databases, caches, queues, S3 storage, and more. This complexity increases technical and cognitive operational burden on infrastructure teams. As a result, skilled engineers command premium salaries, making infrastructure maintenance far more expensive than application development itself.
Speaker: Andrei Kvapil, Ænix CEO and founder
Let’s be in touch! aenix.io cozystack.io
Talos Linux is a specialized operating system designed for running Kubernetes. In my opinion, it does that task better than others. First and foremost it handles full lifecycle management for Kubernetes control-plane components.
On the other hand, Talos Linux focuses on security, minimizing the user’s ability to influence the system. A distinctive feature of this OS is the near-complete absence of executables, including the absence of a shell and the inability to log in via SSH. All configuration of Talos Linux is done through a Kubernetes-like API.
On February 28, members of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee completed their voting and unanimously accepted Cozystack, a platform for building private clouds and PaaS, into the CNCF Sandbox. The project is currently undergoing the onboarding process. Let’s break down what this means in practice, what Cozystack is, and what the CNCF Sandbox represents.
Cozystack is an open-source platform that enables the creation of a bare metal cloud for deploying proven cloud-native and open-source tools: managed Kubernetes clusters, databases as a service, applications as a service, and virtual machines based on KubeVirt (see the full list of components). Cozystack also provides a ready-made stack for observability and alerting based on Victoria Metrics, Victoria Logs, Grafana, and Alerta.
