elemental VS kairos

First rancheros then k3os now they are onto Elemental. Suffice to say none of these solutions has even lasted long enough to make them worthwhile. I say build a composable template with cloud-init and be done with it.

k3os has been superceded by SLE BCI (https://www.suse.com/products/base-container-images/) and Elementatl (https://github.com/rancher/elemental)

The rancher stack is pretty amazing.

Elemental is pretty close to coreos: https://github.com/rancher/elemental/

They even have a way to build arbitrary os images: https://github.com/rancher/elemental-toolkit

It's pretty great

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!