Talos Linux is an API driven distribution for running Kubernetes. It takes great ideas behind immutable operating systems a step further. It isn’

Bottlerocket vs Talos Linux

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2024-03-29 17:30:03

Talos Linux is an API driven distribution for running Kubernetes. It takes great ideas behind immutable operating systems a step further. It isn’t a container operating system, it’s a Kubernetes operating system. The difference is, Talos is built only to run in Kubernetes. Other minimal distributions, like Bottlerocket, add complexity by supporting multiple workloads and orchestrators.

By focusing Talos only on Kubernetes and a declarative API it will greatly reduce the toil required for running a Kubernetes cluster. It can reduce it so much there are only 12 binaries in Talos.

Bottlerocket is a container focused Linux from Amazon Web Services. It was launched in 2020 to compete with Talos. The main goals of Bottlerocket—according to their website—are minimal, safe updates, and security focused.

Let’s take a look how Talos Linux and Bottlerocket compare so you can better understand how they’re similar and where they’re different.