Talos is a container optimized Linux distro; a reimagining of Linux for distributed systems such as Kubernetes. Designed to be as minimal as possible while still maintaining practicality. For these reasons, Talos has a number of features unique to it: it is immutable it is atomic it is ephemeral it is minimal it is secure by default it is managed via a single declarative configuration file and gRPC API Talos can be deployed on container, cloud, virtualized, and bare metal platforms.