Talos Linux

“Talos is a beautiful immutable OS for building a k8s cluster”

“We're using this approach with Talos as Kubernetes host and it works very well.”

“I also run a Talos Linux K8s cluster in the home lab”

“I'm using Talos Linux in production (well 12 nodes, but still production) and I'm very happy with it.”

“I use Talos for my homelab and have been considering using it for work.”

“We are now running a full kubernetes cluster on Talos Linux”

“The kernel can't be, because it isn't part of the conversation.”

“The engineering underneath is not vibed though: the policy kernel is ~645 lines you can read in one sitting”

“I built Talos because I wanted to hand an agent a terminal without handing it my trust model.”

“I am very satisfied with talos and k8s at home.”

“With Oxide each k8s node is a VM, so you still need something like Talos.”

“that is generally easier surface area with something like Talos OS, K3s”

“Talos can be upgraded via talosctl, so even less maintenance than k3s.”

“Talos in particular simplifies a lot of the deployment because there's not much of an OS to configure or keep updated.”

“it has been rock solid and dead easy to setup”

“One experiment I did was with Talos / K8s with about 3 of these and it worked great.”

“talosos largely mitigates the bare metal problems and comes pre-hardened and pre-optimized”

“Setting up a single node k8s using Talos was actually pretty straight forward”

“Talos and Flatcar are also worth considering if you want an even smaller attack surface”

“since you cannot reach inside to make Talos actually work in environments that aren't supported by that golden path”

“the welded shut hood prevented me from doing the little tweaks necessary to get running in those environments.”

“I do think the Talos model has kinda superseded this when it comes to repeatable deployment”

“Talos on IncusOS is likely a very interesting stack”

“Proxmox/pbs/truenas/talos/linstor/DRBD are all amazing.”

“a great way to run K8s in IAAS while minimizing vendor lock-in”

“it's my current favorite way to spin up a bare metal Kubernetes cluster”

“I'm building Talos, a QA agent that is completely agnostic to your tech stack.”

“frankly I'd just install Talos or SmartOS on the metal like god intended.”

“I switched to talos instead for a more vanilla k8s where i could actually get a service mesh installed.”

“you could just throw that on there, connect it to a cluster”

“sidero's talos (since the latter also works perfectly fine on clusters based on pi 4 and above)”

“I wonder if just using systemd for the init process wouldn't have been easier”

“Talos is really an interesting linux distribution because it has no classical user space”

“Talos has made this super easy in my experience.”

“It's vastly simpler, you can run them in NixOS VMs, it's declarative”

“just start with something simpler and more manageable like k3s or Talos Linux”

“remove a lot of the management burden but leave you with all the benefits of having a cluster”

“Talos on bare metal to get kubernetes features is pretty good.”

“Pretty much just install talos and you're done.”

“Check out Talos Linux if you haven't already, it's pretty cool (if you want k8s).”