On: Talos Linux

[solatic]

Can anybody help explain when organizations should use Talos instead of cloud-vendor-managed Kubernetes offerings (EKS/AKS/GKE)? Especially considering that the managed offerings now fit most regulatory requirements (e.g. EKS is FedRAMP-High Authorized)? Or does Talos see most of its use in on-prem environments?

[indymike → solatic]

> Can anybody help explain when organizations should use Talos instead of cloud-vendor-managed Kubernetes offerings (EKS/AKS/GKE)?

1. Learning. I want to self host to learn the stack top to bottom.

2. Build your own service.

3. Why not? (probably the best, most hackerish option)

> Especially considering that the managed offerings now fit most regulatory requirements (e.g. EKS is FedRAMP-High Authorized)?

Standards that meet regulatory requirements may not be updated or secure enough to meet private sector needs.

[andrewrynhard → solatic]

For folks who are all in on a single cloud provider it might not make sense, but if you run Kubernetes in multiple clouds, on-premise, edge, etc. then it starts to make a lot of sense since you get consistency.