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Replacing Kubernetes with Systemd
Or drop all brittle c code entirely and replace systemd with kubernetes: https://www.talos.dev/
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Talos Linux: a new standard for on-premises Kubernetes clusters?
A few weeks ago, I was at KubeCon Europe 2025 in London and I had the opportunity to attend a presentation that tackled the monumental challenge of migrating 35 Kubernetes clusters in an air-gapped environment from nodes deployed with a mix of kubeadm/Ansible/Puppet to Talos Linux nodes deployed using Cluster API.
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Hybrid k8s cluster | Talos & Kubespan | Kilo wireguard
pct create 1000 local:vztmpl/ubuntu-24.10-standard_24.10-1_amd64.tar.zst \ --hostname net-lxc \ --net0 name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,ip=10.1.1.2/24,gw=10.1.1.1 \ --nameserver 1.1.1.1 \ --features keyctl=1,nesting=1 \ --storage local-lvm \ --rootfs local:8 \ --ssh-public-keys .ssh/id_rsa.pub \ --unprivileged=true pct start 1000 ssh [email protected] apt update && apt install curl -y curl -s https://get.docker.com | sudo bash curl -L https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases/download/v1.9.5/initramfs-amd64.xz -o initramfs-amd64.xz curl -L https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases/download/v1.9.5/vmlinuz-amd64 -o vmlinuz-amd64
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Awesome Kubernetes Resources !!! 🔥
💚Talos Linux 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 - Talos Linux is a minimal, immutable, secure OS that installs vanilla Kubernetes - for production datacenters, K8s@home, and Edge.
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Kubernetes as Bare Metal Service utilizing Sidero Metal & Talos
kubectl edit environment default apiVersion: metal.sidero.dev/v1alpha2 kind: Environment metadata: creationTimestamp: "2024-11-23T13:16:12Z" generation: 1 name: default resourceVersion: "6527" uid: 9e069ed5-886c-4b3c-9875-fe8e7f453dda spec: initrd: url: https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases/download/v1.8.3/initramfs-amd64.xz kernel: args: - console=tty0 - console=ttyS0 - consoleblank=0 - earlyprintk=ttyS0 - ima_appraise=fix - ima_hash=sha512 - ima_template=ima-ng - init_on_alloc=1 - initrd=initramfs.xz - nvme_core.io_timeout=4294967295 - printk.devkmsg=on - pti=on - slab_nomerge= - talos.platform=metal url: https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases/download/v1.8.3/vmlinuz-amd64
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Stagex – Container-native, full-source bootstrapped, and reproducible toolchain
I'm also one of the maintainers of stagex.
fwiw, Talos now uses stagex for their builds: https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases/tag/v1.10.0-alp...
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Ask HN: Kubernetes bare metal learning material
Might not be the answer you were looking for but hear me out: the biggest impact on my Kubernetes knowledge has been starting a homelab on Talos Linux.
I've used this as a sandbox/playspace/proving ground for Kubernetes concepts to satisfy my own curiosities. The benefit of this space is that you can make mistakes without affecting any real data, and you can blow away your entire config and start from scratch if you need to. I have already seen benefits to this hobby in my career.
My entrypoint was the Talos getting started guide: https://www.talos.dev/
And following the community at https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/
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When was the famous "sudo warning" introduced? Under what background? By whom?
I think this is underrated as a design flaw for how Linux tends to be used in 2024. At its most benign it's an anachronism and potential source of complexity, as it's worst it's a major source of security flaws and unintended behavior (eg linux multitenancy was designed for two people in the same lab sharing a server, not for running completely untrusted workloads at huge scale).
I haven't had a chance to try it out but this is why I think Talos linux (https://www.talos.dev/) is a step in the right direction for Linux as it is used for cloud/servers. Though personally I think multitenancy esp. regarding containerized applications/cgroups is a bigger problem and I don't know if they're addressing that.
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Kubernetes PODs with global IPv6
How to create a VM with the Talos image is beyond the scope of this article. Please refer to the official documentation for guidance. After bootstrapping the control plane, the next step is to deploy the Talos CCM along with a CNI plugin.
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Kubernetes homelab - Learning by doing, Part 2: Installation
Maybe in the future I will try others systems, like Talos which is designed for Kubernetes - secure, immutable, and minimal.
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