--- title: Building a Bare Metal Platform with Talos | daily.dev description: Andre Quel shares insights about building a bare metal platform using Talos Linux, leveraging his experience with Kubernetes and cloud engineering. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-bare-metal-platform-with-talos-glie1v7dk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Bare Metal Platform with Talos | daily.dev og:description: Andre Quel shares insights about building a bare metal platform using Talos Linux, leveraging his experience with Kubernetes and cloud engineering. 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Talos Linux offers simplification by providing Kubernetes out of the box, and the platform uses Flux CD for configuration management. The process involves bootstrapping virtual machines with Talos Linux and configuring clusters with a single YAML file. The solution also addresses how to handle updates and debugging on a bare-metal setup. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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