Talos v0.14 is live!
This release of Talos accumulates a lot of changes resulting in an improved user experience. It brings more knobs and switches to play with so that you can dial in exactly what you need. Getting Ready...
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Talos 1.0: what a minimal OS enables
When I first started on this journey of building Talos, a minimal, secure-by-default platform for Kubernetes, I never imagined that it would be as successful as it has become. Seeing Talos mentioned...
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A practical guide to the Forking workflow: so easy even a CEO can do it
Updated October 2022 to reflect the fact that Github changed references from master to main. Here at Sidero Labs, we are an engineering heavy company. Almost every employee is an engineer, and they’re...
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Why should a Kubernetes control plane be three nodes?
Why does Sidero Labs recommend 3 nodes for the control plane, in most cases? Why not 4? Or 10? Read on to find out! A Kubernetes cluster generally consists of two classes of nodes: workers, which run...
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Kubernetes on Equinix Metal – painlessly!
Talos Linux was recently added as a supported operating system on Equinix Metal. We’ve had support for Equinix Metal for a while, as we love the people and the product there, and have used them to run...
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Verified Terraform provider for Talos Linux
Talos Linux is all about declaratively managing the operating system and Kubernetes. But how can you declaratively manage the initial installation and bootstrapping of the Talos Linux Kubernetes...
View ArticleScheduling workloads on control plane nodes in kubernetes – a bad idea?
Yes, it is generally a bad idea to run workloads on control plane nodes, but it’s a balance. If you have no constraints regarding cost or resource availability and are maximizing security and...
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Why Omni doesn’t use Cluster API
This post first appeared on The New Stack as “Is Cluster API Really the Future of Kubernetes Deployment?” Everyone loves the Cluster API. But there are some cases where it is not the best solution....
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KubePrism – Improving Kubernetes workload availability by preventing...
If you are running a production, highly available Kubernetes cluster, you want multiple control plane nodes for fault tolerance. In this scenario, it is common to have an external load balancer to...
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When it’s good to shoot your cattle
I “came of age” for data center operations well before cloud native was a thing. Hardware was (comparatively) slow, expensive, and often customized. (Database servers would have specialized SCSI...
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Omni source code now available
Omni is the easiest way to manage Kubernetes clusters and Talos Linux. It has been a hosted service provided by Sidero Labs and now the source code is available under a BUSL license which means you...
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There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux
Linux is a core component of your Kubernetes cluster. The distribution you choose will have a big impact on how quickly you can create a cluster, the stability of your workloads, and how much...
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Omni SaaS hobby tier is now $10
You want to run Kubernetes in your home lab without self-hosting Omni? Now you can do it for less than the cost of a Netflix standard subscription. Bring your own popcorn. Omni is the easiest way to...
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Taloscon 2024 is on-prem
Taloscon in 2023 was a big hit! It was a global, virtual conference where we got to talk all about Talos, Kubernetes, and Omni. There were presentations and discussions all about how people are using...
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Talos home lab clusters
The Talos community is great! Not only are they passionate about minimizing the amount of work needed to create on-prem Kubernetes clusters, but they share what they’ve built. Here’s a selection of...
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Bottlerocket vs Talos Linux
Talos Linux is an API driven distribution for running Kubernetes. It takes great ideas behind immutable operating systems a step further. It isn’t a container operating system, it’s a Kubernetes...
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XZ Utils and Talos Linux (CVE-2024-3094)
As you’ve probably heard there was a sophisticated back door discovered as part of the liblzma decryption library. This back door is intended to allow a malicious actor to remotely execute code on a...
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Linux golden images without packer
Linux golden images have come and gone in popularity over the years with a variety of different tools. When I was first a sysadmin we would hand craft a VM, sysprep it, and then export a vmdk file....
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Sidero Austin meetup – May 7th
Come out to Cidercade in Austin on May 7th at 8 PM to meet Andrew Rynhard and Justin Garrison in person. We’d love to hear what you’re working on and what you’re doing with Talos Linux. We’ll pay for...
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How to SSH into Talos Linux
I know it’s a click bait title, and you clicked it anyway. So let’s just pretend you want to get an interactive terminal on a Talos Linux node. I’m not sure why you’d want to do that—the API is more...
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