Talos, with Andrew Rynhard

Aug 19, 2021

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
  • 5150 emulator and docs
  • What was it like to use?
  • Twitter thread about the cost of add-ons
  • 41 years ago: the story of the creation of the PC
• DONKEY.BAS
  • Play it on the 5150 emulator
  • Learn about it
  • Play it on the iPhone or Apple Watch
• 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