Today will be our next community meeting of Cozystack development.

This time we invited Chris Lu (core maintainer of SeaweedFS) so you can address your questions directly.

Today we'll talk about SeaweedFS implementation in Cozystack, as well a few more features around Dashboard improvement and new features.

When: Thursday at 18:00 CET / 9:00 PT
Where: Google meet
Link to join in:
https://meet.google.com/swr-urij-hde

Minutes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18OtrmgeiRHGhufRAuWHZuZOOSNBZagouNvULDmeJ2F4/edit

please suggest topics you want to discuss in the open floor ^^

Cozystack community meeting

This time we invited Chris Lu (core maintainer of SeaweedFS) and he answered community members' questions.

https://youtu.be/w9lSPr9bf60

Cozystack v0.11 Open Source platform has been released: S3, improved tenant isolation, UI enhancements, and other features

The Cozystack v0.11 release is now available for download, installation, or updating current installations.

Key changes:
— Added S3 support. Implemented the basic SeaweedFS functionality in Cozystack. Developed a Kubernetes-COSI driver for automatic S3 bucket provisioning. Added support for automatic volume resizing in the SeaweedFS chart.
— Network isolation between tenants. Significant work was done to enhance network isolation between tenants, bugs were fixed, and network policies were completely revamped.
— UI update. All service icons have been replaced. The dashboard has been redesigned to display only the necessary information in ResourceView. There is now an option to specify which htcehcs to display by listing them in a special role <name>-dashboard-resources.
— Added a Development Guide section to the documentation and updated the installation guide for Hetzner.
— Cilium updated to v1.16, which includes our patch for automatic device detection.
— Resolved garbage collector issues in tenant Kubernetes clusters.
— Fixed issues with forwarding HTTP and HTTPS traffic using ingress in tenant Kubernetes clusters.
— Added snapshot-controller and object-storage-controller.
— LINSTOR updated to v1.28.
— Talos Linux updated to v1.7.6.
— Kube-OVN now built from the stable base.
— Refined the logic for substituting image digests in values, resulting in fewer modifications to the original charts.

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Update for Talm v0.6.0, the Talos Linux configuration manager

- The talosctl library has been updated to version v1.7.6.
- Fixed displaying spec in the output of talm get <resources>
- talm init command now have new option --update, which automatically updates the Talm library chart.
- The default_addresses_by_gateway template has been fixed and now matches addresses only in the default main routing table.

A new article in our blog about Cozystack adoption written by one of our early clients🔥🔥🔥

We have updated our Development Guide,

Added instructions on how to create a development environment and run end-to-end tests directly within an existing Kubernetes cluster.

Thanks to mirrord, development in such environments has become simple and more interactive.

To get started, navigate to packages/core/testing:

- Create a new development environment: make apply
- Run tests: make test
- Access the deployed sandbox: make login
- Run a SOCKS5 proxy to access Cozystack dashboard and Grafana from your browser.

A new release of Cozystack v0.12: Enhanced DX, Virtual Machines, and VPN

This release includes significant improvements to the Developer Experience (DX), along with several other useful changes:

- DX: You can now use standard commands like make show, make diff, and make apply not only for system applications.
- DX: Added the ability to create temporary test environments within an existing Kubernetes cluster.
- DX: The development guide has been expanded to include steps for setting up buildx and running a test environment.
- VPN Application: Now generates passwords and displays a ready-to-use URL for connecting to Shadowsocks in the dashboard.
- Virtual Machines: You can now set sshKeys and configure the options for root user.
- StorageClass option can now be specified for any application.
- Cilium has been updated to version v1.16.1.
- Kubernetes: A valuesOverride option has been added to override the values for installed addons.
- Kubernetes: The label for the KubeVirt CSI driver has been updated, ensuring that the controller creates and searches for PVCs with a label indicating cluster ownership. It's recommended to update Kubernetes application to the latests version after updating the platform itself.

Many thanks to @bzhzhzhpsh for their community contribution to enhancing VM management in this release.

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Last Cozystack community meeting: https://youtu.be/kjlW6kkwypE

Cozystack v0.13 release: Logs and Virtual Machines enhancements

The new release of Cozystack v0.13 includes a new solution for collecting and viewing logs, as well as many improvements for virtual machines.

Main Changes:

- Implemented a log collection system based on VictoriaLogs and fluentbit. Logs can be viewed directly in Grafana by writing queries using LogsQL.
- The VM application has been reworked so that all virtual machines are now created with bridge binding and on block devices without an additional file system layer. This significantly improves performance and enables live migration for virtual machines.
- Added the ability to run Talos Linux and Alpine Linux in virtual machines.
- Added support for specifying SSH keys and cloud-init configurations.
- FerretDB upgraded to version v1.24, enhancing compatibility with various MongoDB clients.
- KubeVirt and CDI updated to the latest versions, resolving tty issues when connecting to the virtual machine console.
- Enabled support for expandDisks to automatically resize the virtual machine's disk after resizing the PVC.
- Enabled support for SCTP and nodePort services in Cilium.

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A a scary little story with a happy ending about registry mirroring in Harbor: https://blog.aenix.io/issue-with-configuring-registry-mirroring-in-harbor-dd200311885f

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

Cozystack has officially been included in the CNCF Landscape under the Platform and Certified Kubernetes - Installed categories! 🚀

This milestone highlights our commitment to delivering top-notch solutions and staying at the forefront of cloud-native technology. Thanks to everyone who’s been part of this journey! 🌐

Andrei Kvapil's talks from Talos Conf 2024, London. Nice and steaming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PilO6iTht4

00:00:00 Andrey's Experience and the Founding of Ænix
00:01:12 The History of Creating Talos Linux
00:02:06 Pipeline: Installing Kubernetes "Out of the Box", Using FluxCD
00:04:23 Working with Infrastructure: Proxmox and OpenStack Images, Testing with Docker, VMs in the Cloud and on Local Servers
00:05:21 Setting Up a Virtual Machine with Talos Linux and Configuring the System Using a YAML File
00:06:35 Cluster Configuration: Setting Up Nodes and Clusters, Configuring Network Interfaces
00:06:54 Applying Configuration with talosctl
00:08:48 Seamless Node Updates and Migrating Workloads from One Node to Another
00:09:23 Accessing the Cluster
00:10:02 Infrastructure Setup
00:12:59 Creating a Talos Linux Image
00:13:52 Loading the Image onto Bare Metal
00:15:29 Talos Bootstrap
00:17:32 Components of the Cozystack Open Source Platform
00:18:31 Platform Layers
00:19:35 Debugging in Talos Linux
00:22:12 Unified Environments and Support
00:25:19 Division of Responsibilities
00:26:57 Using Kamaji for Managing Kubernetes
00:28:15 Open Source Community and etcd-operator
00:28:47 Linstor Storage System
00:31:00 Application Catalog and Dashboard in Cozystack
00:32:45 Resource Limitation for Clients
00:34:36 Using GitHub and Dashboard

🚀 Today is the big day! Cozystack is live on Product Hunt! 🎉

We’re excited to share our platform with the world, and we need your support. 🙌 Your vote will help us reach more people and make our launch even more successful. 🌟

👉 Head over to Product Hunt and give us an upvote to show your support! Every vote counts, and we truly appreciate it! 💙

Thank you for being part of this journey! Let’s make this launch unforgettable together. 🚀