talos + kubernetes, visualized
See how Talos and Kubernetes move your packets and store your bytes.
Interactive visualizations of Talos Linux and Kubernetes: machine config, etcd, CNIs, network policy, StorageClasses, and the Proxmox CCM and CSI.
Talos API (talosctl → apid)etcd quorumpod traffic over the CNIblock I/O via CSI
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An OS that is an API
No SSH, no shell, just machined
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Machine config
One YAML, patches, secrets
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Bootstrap & etcd
From ISO to a quorate control plane
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Upgrades & Image Factory
A/B images and system extensions
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Pod & Service networking
Follow a packet through the cluster
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CNIs compared
Flannel, Cilium, Calico & more
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Cilium & eBPF
kube-proxy replacement, Hubble
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Network policies
Who can talk to whom
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Services, LB & Gateway
ClusterIP to Gateway API
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PV, PVC & CSI
How a claim becomes a disk
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StorageClasses compared
local-path, Longhorn, Rook-Ceph…
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Proxmox CCM
Nodes that know their VM
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Proxmox CSI
PVCs as Proxmox virtual disks
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Talos on Proxmox
The full reference build