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Re: Talos Linux

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Post by andrewrynhard »

heffer wrote: post #13
hoistbypetard wrote: post #2

I was totally expecting this to be something made by Raptor: https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

I had somewhat of a weird moment here as well. I was expecting this to be related to Cisco Talos. And so I opened your link to find out what it was about. Only to find it mentioning CAPI 2.0 which I only know from the ISDN days ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ISDN_Application_Progra... ) and not as some form of I/O interface accelerator.

We mention CAPI but certainly not 2.0 since the CAPI we are referring to is "Cluster API" and they only have 1.0.

Re: Talos Linux

#22

Post by andrewrynhard »

andrewrynhard wrote: post #19
TruthWillHurt wrote: post #15

So.. it's CoreOS all over again? Or Ubuntu Eucalyptus? (Neither is still with us. wonder why..)

The same spirit as CoreOS but it is something entirely different. Written from PID1 up solely for the purposes of running Kubernetes.

I would say that CoreOS is gone because RH destroyed it. Not because people didn't use it.

Re: Talos Linux

#23

Post by giancarlostoro »

andrewrynhard wrote: post #18
AtlasBarfed wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... so it wastes memory instead of disk? Unless we are talking about, like, a 100MB ramdisk, why is that a good thing? And really, I'd prefer a 10MB ramdisk.

It is a 50MB squashfs.

Thats impressive honestly.

Re: Talos Linux

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Post by ReptileMan »

AtlasBarfed wrote: post #14
ByThyGrace wrote: post #3

> Ephemeral > Talos runs in memory from a SquashFS, and persists nothing, leaving the primary disk entirely to Kubernetes. Hmm so if the entire disk is unused where is /boot in this configuration?

... so it wastes memory instead of disk? Unless we are talking about, like, a 100MB ramdisk, why is that a good thing? And really, I'd prefer a 10MB ramdisk.

Probably makes full disk encryption easier. Also compared to how much memory you can have on a modern server - it's trivial amount

Re: Talos Linux

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Post by danpalmer »

_8j50 wrote: post #25

GKE uses ChromeOS, weirded me out at first.

GKE runs Google's "Container Optimised" OS. It's just a bare-bones Linux designed for security and performance running containers, very similar to Talos.

Edit: Was wrong, thanks for the correction.

Re: Talos Linux

#29

Post by ossusermivami »

andrewrynhard wrote: post #22
andrewrynhard wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same spirit as CoreOS but it is something entirely different. Written from PID1 up solely for the purposes of running Kubernetes.

I would say that CoreOS is gone because RH destroyed it. Not because people didn't use it.

I think you are misinformed, coreos is still alive within RH products (openshift)

Re: Talos Linux

#30

Post by wrs »

danpalmer wrote: post #28
_8j50 wrote: post #25

GKE uses ChromeOS, weirded me out at first.

GKE runs Google's "Container Optimised" OS. It's just a bare-bones Linux designed for security and performance running containers, very similar to Talos. Edit: Was wrong, thanks for the correction.

“Container-Optimized OS is maintained by Google and based on the open source Chromium OS project.” [0]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concept...

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