Talos in the AI era

0:00 All right. So, Mr. Yardi and Stephen, welcome to Udienza. Super excited to be here between you and especially at TalosCon. Thanks very much. Delighted to be here with you. So, what are the news? What are you working on? Well, the big announcements that we have had recently was Talos Enterprise Linux, which delivers all the security artifacts for enterprises that need NIS2 compliance or CRA compliance. The big announcements following that are the Talos hypervisor, and then that’s leading us to… Talos AI and Talos Cupar, which is an exit.

0:47 And Talos Director, too. Yeah. And all of these are just such exciting developments. And can I back up a little bit? Because Steve and I didn’t know each other four months ago. No. You called me, sent an email, and I called you when I was in New York. Yes. And look, three months later, we are announcing all of these things. In the hypervisor program, the demonstration looks so good. The conversations that I’ve had with some of the attendees have been very positive. The director reviews are very solid. And I might add, we have, I think, one sale already. Which is amazing.

1:33 Which is amazing. Well done. I’m super excited, especially for very young. There is a big discussion about sovereignty in Europe. Yeah. How do you see declining in your product? One more time. How do you see the sovereignty discussion in your product? Ah, yeah, yeah. So it is a big topic, sovereignty. And our products, I think, will help. Because on the cloud side, Director and Talos Linux help out with setting up a cloud, a private cloud environment. And then on the AI side, with open-weight models, we hope that we can make sure that data that belongs to a company can be sovereign and stay inside that company’s private cloud.

2:21 And it has the added benefit of saving them a lot of money. Yeah. That’s very important. Yes. So the future of TalosCon is brighter than ever. Is what? Brighter than ever. Brighter than ever, for sure. Matter of fact, we are going to be doing our first TalosCon in the U.S. early in January next year. There will be another one in Europe next year. But this is our third in-person TalosCon and attendance has just gone up and up and up every year. So from 100 people in the first year to 250 or so and now about 500. So it’s going really great. Yeah. Great. And we’ll be at KubeCon in Salt Lake City. And that should be a major event. And I’m hoping that we’ll have even more to share in terms of product development and our vision,

3:13 making sure that our vision resonates with the audience. Cool. Are you planning like a life cycle, like long-term support releases? Or will it be like one release every six months? What are you planning? So I don’t know that we have decided, but it will be based on what our clients ask for. And it will be based on what we hear in terms of things that the industry and the markets need. My suspicion is it will be at least once every three months because it is changing so rapidly and it might be more frequent. Traditionally, Talos Linux has had its life cycle synchronized with Kubernetes releases because every new release of Kubernetes, Talos would release the next day to support that Kubernetes version.

4:02 Now, of course, Talos does more than Kubernetes. It also does standalone containers. It also does the hypervisor. So I suspect we will actually be releasing Talos Linux itself more frequently because there’s more in it, but you don’t have to upgrade. One of the things we hear from our customers is keeping up with even a four-month release cycle is quite tricky. But we are working to make the, as you may have seen today, releases and configurations are becoming more and more friction-free. You can apply configurations that don’t trigger reboots. You can keep the nodes running while you are upgrading and keeping things, changing the configurations live. So releasing more frequently but getting it easier to do so. Lovely. How can I try and get in contact with your Marvelous team?

4:50 siderolabs.com. You can download Talos directly from there. You can sign up for Talos Enterprise Linux. You can sign up for the Omni management plane which is part of Talos Enterprise Linux. You can apply for the limited availability of Talos Director and be notified when Talos AI is available. It all happens there. Cool. So guys, go and check it out and thank you for having me today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Bye. Bye.