Talos

After migrating to Talos Linux, I had an immutable operating system—but I was still managing Kubernetes applications the old way. kubectl apply -f everywhere. Configuration files scattered across my laptop. “Did I deploy this? What version am I running? How did I configure that?”

I ran K3s on Ubuntu for over a year. The main problem was configuration drift—SSH into a node to fix something, install a debug package, edit a config file directly. Six months later, the cluster works but I can’t reproduce the setup.