Kairos: At the Intersection of K8s, Edge Computing & Immutability
summary
Kairos converts a container image into a bootable, immutable OS ISO and an edge-fleet factory that provides atomic A/B upgrades, image-from-container builds, and an active/recovery partition layout with instant rollback. It integrates TPM and KMS disk encryption, an overlay VPN and a libp2p ledger for automatic role election so PXE + Aurora boot can create an HA k3s cluster, and it hooks into Cluster API for near zero‑touch provisioning.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Kairos intro
- 3:06Kairos open source
- 9:12Edge computing challenges
- 12:43Edge limits
- 16:38Immutability features
- 20:30Kairos architecture
- 25:25Advanced features: TPM, Ledger, PXE
- 33:58Kairos demo
- 42:54Solving edge issues
- 44:21Kairos roadmap
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