Talos is really awesome, its a minimal OS strictly built to run kubernetes. We use it at work and its running in production for a lot of people. Its extremely minimal and can only be used via its own api, talosctl command. Its minimalism makes it great for security and less resource heavy than alternatives.

Check this out for a quick’ funny taste of why one should consider using Talos >>

[60sec video from Sidero Labs, creators of Talos] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiJYaU16rYU

Talos is under MPL 2.0, afaik that is open-source.

Oh damn, how nice! Ill look into that for sure 😊

Nice one that, fortunately i just rebuilt my server with an i5-12400 new fancy case amd slowly transitioning to an all in ssd build! I would probably lean towards a singlenode cluster using Talos.

I assume you then also use apprise as middleman here or?

Maybe a transition to a cluster homelab should be the goal of 2026, would be fun.

Thanks for this very in depth answer, learned a lot from this 🫶