On: Talos Linux

[ByThyGrace]

> 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?

[ZiiS → ByThyGrace]

It can netboot.

[AtlasBarfed → ByThyGrace]

... 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.

[andrewrynhard → AtlasBarfed]

It is a 50MB squashfs.

[giancarlostoro → andrewrynhard]

Thats impressive honestly.

[ReptileMan → AtlasBarfed]

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

[cbarrick → AtlasBarfed]

Diskless servers are not uncommon

[latchkey → cbarrick]

I've got over 10k of them. ;-)