1.7 Release Preview, VMware Migration & CozyPlane VPC

Cozystack community meeting 2026-09-17 Previewing release 1.7 features, a live demo of the new marketplace interface, VMware migration workflows, and open floor discussion on the multi-tenant CNI CozyPlane. Welcome to the recording of our bi-weekly Cozystack Community Meeting! In this session, the maintainers and contributors dive deep into the upcoming 1.7 release, showcase live dashboard previews, and discuss new open-source architectural proposals. Key Topics Covered: • Cozystack 1.7 Preview: Introduction of the community marketplace and external repository connections. • VMware to Cozystack Migration: How our integration with Forklift allows operators to connect to vCenter and easily import VMs into an open-source stack. • CozyPKG Deep Dive: A look at our CLI tool for managing application repositories that takes the best practices of Homebrew and Krew. • Network Layer Evolution: Updates on CozyPlane, an alternative CNI built from day one for multi-tenancy, VPC support, and KubeVert routing compatibility. • First Official Deprecation: Why the team is moving away from the underutilized HTTP cache application. • Community Proposals: Discussions on Tenant Host Delegation, migration to Envoy Gateway, and how you can submit design documents to our community repo. Subscribe to our community calendar and join the cloud-native infrastructure conversation! Chapters: 00:00 — Set up routine 02:32 — Meeting start and welcoming new community members 08:56 — Welcome & introductions of new community members 11:42 — What's coming in Cozystack 1.7: Core features overview 12:42 — Live Demo: The new interactive dashboard on Cozystack.io 14:04 — VMware vCenter to Cozystack migration via Forklift 15:45 — Cozystack Marketplace & external repository connections 18:27 — Live Technical Demo: Using the CozyPKG utility 24:31 — Open Floor: CozyPlane development (Multi-tenant CNI & VPC support) 32:38 — Upstream Contributions: Fixing VM interface routing bugs in KubeVert 35:08 — Deprecation Notice: Phasing out the HTTP cache application 36:23 — Design Proposal Review: Tenant Host Delegation & Envoy Gateway migration 42:36 — PR & Issue Triage: Opt-in graceful shutdown on Talos OS 44:30 — Q&A: How to submit design proposals and contribute to the community repo 47:00 — Closing remarks Cozystack: Free Cloud Platform based on Kubernetes | CNCF Sandbox Project Minutes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y... Agenda and notes: Project updates and news Live Demo page at https://cozystack.io/demo/ Marketplace. What’s new? https://github.com/cozystack/communit... https://github.com/cozystack/communit... Open Floor: Community feedback and topics for future meetings What’s new about Cozyplane cozystack/community#65 You can ask direct questions to the maintainer Timofei Larkin. Cozyplane is a new multi-tenant Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin developed by Timofei Larkin for Kubernetes and the Cozystack open-source cloud platform. The Proof-of-Concept aims to provide isolated multi-tenant networking configurations and has advanced to live-demonstration stages. github.com/lllamnyp/cozyplane    • PoC: Cozyplane: a multi-tenant CNI plugin ...   KubeVirt folks are working on OpenPE router project to enable EVPN support https://openperouter.github.io/ some resources if you want to get some condensed info: https://sched.co/2EG0n https://thenewstack.io/kubevirt-evpn-... https://kubevirt.io/2025/Stretched-la... https://kubevirt.io/2025/Dedicated-mi... Other design proposals review: open proposals on GitHub https://github.com/cozystack/communit... Share your enhancement and architecture proposals by opening a PR at https://github.com/cozystack/communit... Join the community: Telegram group t.me/cozystack Slack group https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives... (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.linuxfounda... 🗓️ Add meetings to your calendar: https://webcal.prod.itx.linuxfoundati... Free Cloud Platform based on Kubernetes | CNCF Sandbox Project #Cozystack #Kubernetes #KubeVert #CloudNative #OpenSource #VMwareMigration #CozyPlane