Re:Talos – A modern Linux distribution for Kubernetes
by andrewrynhard on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:43PM
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LinuxKit is really neat. Don't get me wrong. I think each have their benefits. LinuxKit is great if you need that flexibility. With Talos we would rather focus on building a Kubernetes-centric distro.
I am not sure what exactly you mean by “does not allow host level access”, the benefit of linuxkit is you can configure the software that needs to run in the root namespace, or not, aside from every process generally having a mount namespace.
The real benefit (imo) of LinuxKit is the familiar declarative manifest model for image definition, and container configuration. As a by product, it’s really straight forward to have reproducible builds.