We run many talos clusters at Civo, and they are far easier to manage than the other cluster types that use a standard Linux distribution stripped and stuffed with what we need, and the custom image build process is easy to get running in CI, all in all talos is wonderful both as tenant nodes and our region supercluster nodes, and much simpler process to add/remove nodes to the pool and do a few other k8s-centric tasks like etcd snapshot backups and pre-configuration of our regions before we have kit on the ground.