Haven’t gotten around to testing Talos enough, but I’m very enthusiastic about the idea. The little I’ve tested it has been great. My reasoning is (from my point of view ofc): maintaining an OS(Linux/windows/what have you) is pain, maintaining Kubernetes is pain. If I can I want to put all my effort into one of them. The regular OSes are made to do anything, Talos is made for one specific thing which hopefully reduces the attack and maintenance surface a lot. You also get a fair amount of handholding with Talos compared to raw Kubernetes.

No idea about the windows server part.

If your docker services is running with docker compose, there’s a tool called https://kompose.io/ that will help you. Haven’t tried it, but as most k8s things it probably need some adjustments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I9PkvZ80BQ is an alright overview of the idea k8s. This thing called https://k3s.io/ is a nice staying point for testing k8s out

Not sure if the following will help you, but it helped me so I’ll share:

• Kubernetes is isn’t specifically designed for running services. It’s a generalized tool to help you implement a declarative pattern for your compute
• A lot of the hate K8s gets is actually due to the declarative paradigm. There’s still a lot of tasks people don’t consider worthy of describing. In k8s you’re supposed to describe everything

Edit: k8s is awesome in my unpopular? opinion, but yeah. There is a significant learning curve.

A lot of the experience for getting a service up and running is boilerplate. You can checkout an old project of mine to see how a small set of information must be structured to work in k8s: https://github.com/deifyed/kaex The output will only work for a old version of k8s. Haven’t kept the project updated due to work moving away from k8s

Lol. Likewise

Yeah I guess. I take the middle ground I guess. I’ll gladly help, but I won’t go out of my way unless they really show determination. I often explain that to succeed as a programmer, you need to enjoy grinding away at a problem for hours at end just to enjoy the progress it is to get to that new problem

Not the most motivating live, but I believe it’s honest

Yeah I know. I forgot to mention I ended up as a programmer anyway and I’ve met tons of wonderful colleagues. I just hoped the elitist culture had gone away

Still?? The elitist culture threw me off programming over twenty years ago. I really thought and hoped it had changed