Astana just proved that a 100% completion rate wasn't a fluke. 🇰🇿

On August 24th, we brought our hands-on VMware-to-Cozystack migration workshop to Kazakhstan’s capital, and once again, the engineering community absolutely crushed it.

Every single participant in the room pushed through the entire 3-hour deep dive, resolved every configuration bottleneck, and successfully migrated their virtual machines to the finish line.

This time, we didn't fly solo. A massive shout-out to the team at gohost.kz, who co-hosted the event with us. Thanks to their incredible support and local expertise, everything from logistics to the overall vibe was flawless. It’s always amazing to partner with teams who genuinely care about fostering the local open-source and cloud-native ecosystem.

The technical breakdown remained just as intense:
• Converting OVA to QCOW2 and pushing images to S3
• Booting live VMs on Cozystack
• The real time-sink: untangling years of hardcoded VMware networking assumptions
• Spinning up PostgreSQL and Kafka, wiring it all together, and making the apps respond

Just like our previous stops, everyone who attended now gets a dedicated Cozystack tenant for 30 days. No overnight resets — just a real, stable environment to stress-test workloads, break things properly, and prep for Cozystack administrator certification.

💡 Want us to bring this hands-on workshop to your city next?
If your engineering team or local tech community wants to learn how to seamlessly migrate off VMware, just drop a comment below.
Let’s map out the next stops!