CoreOS to Talos: a journey I loved CoreOS. Since before Kubernetes, since the early days when etcd was a brittle configuration storage database, since fleet was a premiere cluster scheduling system… I had used, worked on, worked with, and loved CoreOS. After a year, all of my new x86 servers, regardless of their locations or […]
Read more >It has been almost two years since Talos was first announced to the world. ARM support was almost immediately a feature request. At the time the project had major features missing that needed to be implemented before we could even think about Talos on ARM. Only after forming a company, hiring a kick ass team, […]
Read more >Originally published at The New Stack. So you are on board with Kubernetes (or thinking about exploring some Kubernetes deployments.) There are lots of good reasons for this, which you are probably well aware of – Kubernetes takes care of the container management, scheduling workloads onto a cluster, dealing with scaling and redundancy, automating rollouts […]
Read more >The new release of Talos OS, our modern operating system for secure Kubernetes hosts, is out! Version 0.7 includes updated releases of Kubernetes (version 1.19.3) and Linux (5.9.3). Major new features include: ARM support: ARM-based images are now built for all cloud platforms. Want to run a secure Kubernetes cluster using Talos OS on AWS […]
Read more >Keeping documentation in sync with the code is always a hard task. That’s why there are automatic tools that can generate documentation for Go code. Godoc, for example, does a great job building a well structured code reference by parsing Go definitions along with comments. Tools like this are common for other languages as well. […]
Read more >Talos is awesome. An OS for Kubernetes that’s completely API-driven and tailor-made just for running Kubernetes? I’ve wanted that long before I actually started working on it with the team. I want to run it everywhere. But the desire to run it everywhere is precisely where things get interesting. In the spirit of the OS […]
Read more >So you want to install Kubernetes on your Mac? The easiest way to get going is to run Kubernetes on Docker, using Talos OS – Talos OS will install and configure Kubernetes on Docker for you. (Note that Docker Desktop does have support for Kubernetes built in, but it is an older version of Kubernetes, […]
Read more >When you are in a fight, sometimes you take one on the chin. In the case of CVE-2020-14386, we may not have taken one on the chin, but it was a hard body shot. One of the goals of Talos OS is to help everyone run secure Kubernetes. The kernel of Talos was vulnerable, but […]
Read more >The new release of Talos, our modern operating system for secure Kubernetes hosts, is out! Version 0.6 includes updated releases of Kubernetes (version 1.19) and Linux (5.8), a new text-based dashboard for node statistics and activity, and support for local QEMU Kubernetes clusters. As always, this release includes more operating system APIs, lots of stability […]
Read more >Talos v0.5, our modern operating system for Kubernetes, has just been released and we are excited to share the new features that we have added. In this version of Talos, we’ve added three new major APIs: control plane recovery, control plane bootstrapping, and a new events subsystem that can be used for sophisticated automation at the […]
Read more >