Coming soon 1:40 Recorded at TalosCon, Amsterdam
Who keeps the Cluster API providers for Talos Linux up to date?
Reviving Cluster API for Talos Linux
Pepijn Oomen of Redpill Linpro calls on the community to revive the Cluster API control plane and bootstrap providers for Talos Linux, now marked deprecated.
Pepijn Oomen, Platform engineer, Redpill Linpro · with 
Luca Berton
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Pepijn Oomen is a platform engineer at Redpill Linpro in Oslo, working on the security, reliability and automation of complex infrastructure, and a Golden Kubestronaut.
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In brief
- Talos Linux has two Cluster API providers: a control plane provider and a bootstrap provider.
- Sidero Labs has updated their README to say they are deprecated.
- Pepijn wants the community to bring them up to date with the latest Cluster API specs, v1beta2.
- He is taking a lead role in getting that community together; anyone interested can reach him on LinkedIn.
- Cluster API is one of several ways to provision Talos, alongside Terraform and Omni.
Why this conversation
Teams that provision Kubernetes clusters declaratively often do it with Cluster API, and for Talos Linux that path depends on two providers their vendor has marked deprecated. At TalosCon in Amsterdam, the host spoke with Pepijn Oomen, a platform engineer at Redpill Linpro, who wants to change that. It is a very short conversation, under two minutes: a call to action more than an interview.
Two providers, marked deprecated
What Pepijn wanted to talk about is the Cluster API support for Talos Linux: the control plane provider and the bootstrap provider. Sidero Labs, the company behind Talos, has updated their README to say that they are deprecated. His view is that the community should act to keep Cluster API support current, up to the latest version of the specs, v1beta2.
He is trying to take a lead role in bringing the community together for further development of both providers. Anyone interested can reach out to him; the way to get in touch is his LinkedIn profile.
Where Cluster API fits
For those who do not know it, Cluster API is one way to provision Talos on the infrastructure of your choice. There are others: Terraform, and Sidero Labs’ own Omni, which, as he put it, “we need to mention”. For people who want an alternative, Cluster API is one of them.
About Pepijn Oomen
Pepijn Oomen is a platform engineer at Redpill Linpro in Oslo, working on the security, reliability and automation of complex infrastructure, and a Golden Kubestronaut.
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