Kubernetes lets us manage our infrastructure declaratively, so why do we still manage the underlying OS with a myriad of different text files? And why allow shell and SSH access to a machine that should be immutable? So asked Andrew Rynhard before creating Talos, a Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. He’s now CTO of Talos Systems, a company founded to take it to market.

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Chatter of the week

40 years of the IBM PC
DONKEY.BAS
Commodore 64
- Wheel of Fortune
- Little Computer People
- C64 vs IBM advertising
- 6502 and derivative CPUs: the C64 used a 6510
- Bender

News of the week

Litmus 2.0.0
- Episode 56, with Evan Powell
SPIRE security audit
- Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup
Bovine by Nick Gerace
- Rust Cloud Native
Verify GKE services are up with dedicated uptime checks
LFX projects open for (Northern) Fall term

Links from the interview

Talos (the OS)
Linux from Scratch
Talos (the robot)
COSI
Comparing k3s to vanilla Kubernetes on Talos
Talos announcement on Reddit and Hacker News
Talos Systems
- Launch blog
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
COSI announcement from KubeCon EU 2021
Andrew Rynhard on Twitter

Talos, with Andrew Rynhard

Kubernetes Podcast from Google