Talos is a container optimized Linux distro; a reimagining of Linux for distributed systems such as Kubernetes. Designed to be as minimal as possible while still maintaining practicality. For these reasons, Talos has a number of features unique to it:
  • it is immutable
  • it is atomic
  • it is ephemeral
  • it is minimal
  • it is secure by default
  • it is managed via a single declarative configuration file and gRPC API
Talos can be deployed on container, cloud, virtualized, and bare metal platforms.

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Why Talos

In having less, Talos offers more. Security. Efficiency. Resiliency. Consistency. All of these areas are improved simply by having less.