ansible-libvirt-microos VS kairos

I've been using a 3 nuc (actually Ryzen devices) k3s on SuSE MicroOS https://microos.opensuse.org/ for my homelab for a while, and I really like it. They made some really nice decisions on which parts of k8s to trim down and which Networking / LB / Ingress to use.

The option to use sqlite in place of etcd on an even lighter single node setup makes it super interesting for even lighter weight homelab container environment setups.

I even use it with Longhorn https://longhorn.io/ for shared block storage on the mini cluster.

If anyone uses it with MicroOS, just make sure you switch to kured https://kured.dev/ for the transactional-updates reboot method.

I'd love to compare it against Talos https://www.talos.dev/ but their lack of support for a persistent storage partition (only separate storage device) really hurts most small home / office usage I'd want to try.

What are the advantages of your project over conceptually similar projects that already exist, like MicroOS (https://microos.opensuse.org/) ?

I would suggest you to check either Leap Micro or MicroOS out.

I use MicroOS (https://microos.opensuse.org/), to keep the base operating system clean you'd install helper tools for constructing containers in a container... so two levels of containers would be very helpful

Where OpenSuse is interesting, definitely, it's with the MicroOS concept of Immutable Installs + their strategy of btrfs snapshots - this looks absolutely great from a stability standpoint ; there are other possible strategies out there, but these people are building a truly unbreakable distro and that's fantastic.

I'm currently running/testing openSUSE's new MicroOS which is really nice but still needs some work

Hi! I just wanted to drop by ansible-libvirt-microos ; since I'm using MicroOS already on a personal server, I decided to make better usage of it, by converting it into a VM host, and setting up another VM inside so that I can deploy more vms with extra steps containers via k3s.

I've been eyeing Kairos [1] which is an OS lifecycle management system for k3s which looks like a nice way to deploy k3s.

[1]: https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos

https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos updates!

kairos.io – Turn your existing distro into an immutable OS with k8s. It is the logical successor of what k3os intended (kind of).

Check out this TNS blog and Kairos blog about the Kairos project. It is a meta distribution, which addresses the issues around immutable distros at a more fundamental level while providing much more flexibility.

Kairos could fit the bill here - I don't think it supports Windows but it does have a cool Network Boot project called AuroraBoot.

kairos.io

Did you heard about https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos ? It supports any base OS (Fedora, openSUSE, Alpine, Rockylinux, Ubuntu, ..), and follows strongly the same K3OS principles. It is immutable, with an A/B upgrading mechanism and it is container based so it is easy to customize to fit your needs. It is community-driven, with no strings attached to any distribution or vendor.

Yes Kairos. KaiOS is a mobile Linux distribution unrelated to Kubernetes.

up to now we have MetalLB and Kubevirt, but here is a list of the ones that were brought up by the community (and planning to add): https://github.com/kairos-io/kairos/issues/592, feel free to add your feedback and tell what you would like to see there!