home-dc-kubernetes, Part 2: Talos as the Kubernetes OS

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Kubernetes has a dirty secret: it runs on top of a general-purpose Linux that was never meant to host it. SSH into most cluster nodes and you’ll find a full distro — package managers, cron daemons, a thousand ways for the node to drift from the image you intended.

Talos takes the opposite bet: the OS is Kubernetes. No SSH. No package manager. No shell. Every node is a minimal, immutable Linux that speaks the Kubernetes API and exposes exactly one management surface — talosctl. If you can’t configure it via the API, you can’t configure it at all. That’s not a limitation; it’s the whole point.

home-dc-kubernetes, Part 1: The Rebuild Source of Truth

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Most homelabs are a pile of services held together by muscle memory. Mine used to be too — until I deleted it. Not by accident: deliberately, so I could prove the repo was telling the truth.

This is home-dc-kubernetes: the repository that can rebuild my entire home data centre from a git clone plus a handful of secrets. Not “restore from backup” — rebuild from declarative source. This series walks through how it works, layer by layer.

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home-dc-kubernetes, Part 2: Talos as the Kubernetes OS

home-dc-kubernetes, Part 1: The Rebuild Source of Truth