DOP 347: Cozystack Turns Bare Metal Into a Managed Services Platform

DOP 347: Cozystack Turns Bare Metal Into a Managed Services Platform

From DevOps Paradox by Darin Pope & Viktor Farcic

April 22, 2026 · 48 min · Episode 347

About this episode

Andrei Kvapil discusses Cozystack, a platform that simplifies managed services on Kubernetes for various industries.

#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. The thesis: Kubernetes should be boring. Not exciting, not cutting-edge, not the thing everyone argues about. Boring like the Linux kernel is boring. Something that sits underneath everything and nobody needs to think about. Viktor takes it one step further and says it should be invisible -- developers should never need to know Kubernetes exists, any more than they need to know what kernel their laptop is running. Cozystack is Andrei's answer to a specific problem. ISPs, banks, finops shops, anyone in Europe who cannot or will not put their data in AWS -- they all want to offer managed databases, managed Kubernetes, object storage, the whole stack. Building that from scratch is hard. Running OpenStack requires a dedicated team that does nothing but tune networking. Cozystack bundles the pieces (Kubevirt, CloudNative Postgres, Cilium, etc) into one product with an aggregation API layer on top of…

People in this episode

Host: Viktor

Guest: Andrei Kvapil

Topics covered

  • Kubernetes
  • Cozystack
  • Managed Services
  • Cloud Computing

Keywords

  • CNCF
  • Kubevirt
  • Cilium
  • OpenStack
  • AI

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Kubernetes, Linux, Cozystack, OpenStack, Kubevirt, CloudNative Postgres, Helm, Kanban, Cilium

Places: Europe

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