Kubernetes lets us manage our infrastructure declaratively, so why do we still manage the underlying OS with a myriad of different text files? And why allow shell and SSH access to a machine that should be immutable? So asked Andrew Rynhard before creating Talos, a Linux distribution built for Kubernetes. He’s now CTO of Talos Systems, a company founded to take it to market.

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Chatter of the week

40 years of the IBM PC
DONKEY.BAS
Commodore 64
- Wheel of Fortune
- Little Computer People
- C64 vs IBM advertising
- 6502 and derivative CPUs: the C64 used a 6510
- Bender

News of the week

Litmus 2.0.0
- Episode 56, with Evan Powell
SPIRE security audit
- Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup
Bovine by Nick Gerace
- Rust Cloud Native
Verify GKE services are up with dedicated uptime checks
LFX projects open for (Northern) Fall term

Links from the interview

68 - How can we improve healthcare communication? Luke Fletcher, Foxo