By B. Cameron Gain
Publication Date: 2025-12-24 21:00:00
ATLANTA — Sidero Labs’ Talos Linux was created to offer an alternative to the high cost and complexity of managing disparate Kubernetes and other deployments. It serves as a lightweight but highly scalable operating system designed for Kubernetes.
In many ways, it does the opposite of Red Hat‘s Linux OpenShift, SUSE Rancher and other Kubernetes distributions. In all of these, Kubernetes is installed and runs on top of a general-purpose operating system. Sidero Labs, with its open source Talos Linux, argues that this entire foundation is not only unnecessary but a liability, especially for private cloud and edge use cases.
It can also support virtual machines (VMs), although there remain limited VMs that run on Kubernetes, and in the case of Broadcom’s vSphere, workarounds are required to integrate it with Talos Linux.
But now Omni, Sidero Labs’ Software as a Service (SaaS) built on Talos Linux, can be used to automatically provision Talos nodes in…
