Csi

Traditionally, an ideal Kubernetes workload should be stateless, meaning it should be able to run anywhere and scale freely, though this also severely limits which kinds of applications we can run, i.e. stateful applications.

Talos is an immutable operating system designed to only run Kubernetes. The advantage of Talos is an out-of-the-box Kubernetes install, as well as a smaller attack surface, and easier maintenance.

If you plan to run stateful applications in your Kubernetes cluster, you quickly run into the question of where to store this state. A database is often the best solution, though writing to disk is sometimes the only — or at least easier, option.