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Running Talos on OpenStack Flex

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As developers, we're constantly seeking platforms that streamline our workflows and enhance the performance and reliability of our applications. Talos is a container optimized Linux distribution reimagined for distributed systems. Designed with minimalism and practicality in mind, Talos brings a host of features that are particularly advantageous for OpenStack environments. By stripping away unnecessary components, it embodies minimalism, reducing the attack surface and resource consumption. It comes secure by default, providing out-of-the-box secure configurations that alleviate the need for extensive hardening.

Building NixOS from Another OS to Use as NixOS on OpenStack

A wordy title, but it was fun to write and hammers on "OS;" OpenStack / Operating System. With the release of OpenStack Flex, we have opened up some much needed ease of operation and functionality into our multi-tenant OpenStack platform. One of the many new features in our public cloud is the ability to simply create and manage custom images. In this blog post, we will guide you through creating a NixOS 24.05 QCOW2 image which is cloud ready. We'll use resources found in the nixos-openstack GitHub repository and we'll build all of this from Ubuntu within OpenStack Flex.