Comment by andrewrynhard

With Kubernetes you can schedule workloads in a number of different ways. Let’s say you insisted on having a shell and package manager. Run your favorite distro’s container as a DaemonSet. With the proper mounts and permissions you can do a lot. In other words use Kubernetes to do the things need to do. Then what role does the OS really play? Well in the case of Talos it’s only there to run Kubernetes.