Members of the technical committee of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), which is part of the Linux Foundation, approved the acceptance of the Cozystack project, which develops a platform for building private clouds and PaaS. Cozystack has received sandbox project status from CNCF. The Cozystack developers have begun the integration process with the CNCF infrastructure.
The Cozystack platform is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license and allows users to build a cloud on existing hardware for deploying cloud-native and open tools: managed Kubernetes clusters, DBaaS (Database as a Service), SaaS (Software as a Service), and of virtual machines based on KubeVirt. Cozystack also provides a ready-made stack for monitoring and alerts built using Victoria Metrics, Victoria Logs, Grafana, and Alerta. Cozystack can be used to provide services managed by Kubernetes, build geo-distributed clusters, and organize the operation of databases deployed on separate hardware (bare metal).
The non-profit organization CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) is part of the Linux Foundation and oversees cloud-native projects such as Kubernetes, Etcd, Envoy, Prometheus, Cilium, Istio, K3s, and FluxCD. To achieve primary project status, a project must go through stages of "Sandbox," "Incubating," and "Graduated." CNCF Sandbox serves as an entry point for projects that want to join CNCF and become part of it.
Transitioning the project to CNCF gives Cozystack users the assurance that the platform will always be available under the Apache 2.0 license and will not face the fate of projects like Mongo, Redis, Terraform, and Vault, whose licenses were changed to proprietary. Additionally, inclusion in CNCF will help attract new developers and users and make project management more transparent.
Source: opennet.ru
