Talos

SREDay London 2024 together with the day-0 TalosCon1 just finished, and I’m happy I got to attend! I first heard about TalosCon during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Paris earlier this year, which also gave me the final push to actually try Talos.

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. In this article we’ll take a look at how to bootstrap and upgrade a multi-node Talos cluster running in VMs on a Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.