Kubernetes lets us manage our infrastructure declaratively, so why do we still manage the underlying OS with a myriad of different text files? And why allow shell and SSH access to a machine that should be immutable? So asked Andrew Rynhard before creating Talos, a Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. He’s now CTO of Talos Systems, a company founded to take it to market.
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Chatter of the week

40 years of the IBM PC

5150 emulator and docs
What was it like to use?
Twitter thread about the cost of add-ons
41 years ago: the story of the creation of the PC


DONKEY.BAS

Play it on the 5150 emulator
Learn about it
Play it on the iPhone or Apple Watch


Commodore 64

Wheel of Fortune
Little Computer People
C64 vs IBM advertising
6502 and derivative CPUs: the C64 used a 6510
Bender



News of the week

Litmus 2.0.0

Episode 56, with Evan Powell


SPIRE security audit

Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup


Bovine by Nick Gerace

Rust Cloud Native


Verify GKE services are up with dedicated uptime checks
LFX projects open for (Northern) Fall term

Links from the interview

Talos (the OS)
Linux from Scratch
Talos (the robot)
COSI
Comparing k3s to vanilla Kubernetes on Talos
Talos announcement on Reddit and Hacker News
Talos Systems

Launch blog


Brazilian jiu-jitsu
COSI announcement from KubeCon EU 2021
Andrew Rynhard on Twitter