Our preferred Kubernetes OS. Talos is a minimal, immutable Linux distribution designed exclusively for Kubernetes. No SSH, no package manager, no configuration drift. Every node is managed via API. We deploy Talos clusters for clients who want maximum security and minimum operational overhead.
For organizations running multiple clusters across environments, we deploy and manage Rancher as the central control plane. Cluster provisioning, RBAC, monitoring, and lifecycle management from a single interface.
For resource-constrained environments, edge deployments, and single-node clusters. K3s is a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution packaged as a single binary. We deploy it where full Kubernetes would be overkill.
Upstream Kubernetes, unmodified. For clients who need the latest features, specific API versions, or complete control over every component. We build the cluster from kubeadm and hand you the kubeconfig — no abstraction layers, no vendor customization.
Unless the client specifies otherwise, every VKS cluster ships with Cilium as the CNI and containerd as the container runtime. These are not arbitrary choices — they are the result of operational experience across hundreds of production clusters.
eBPF-based networking, observability, and security. Network policy enforcement at the kernel level. Hubble for flow visibility. Cluster mesh for multi-cluster connectivity. No kube-proxy, no iptables — pure eBPF.
The CNCF graduated container runtime. Minimal, stable, and the default in upstream Kubernetes since 1.24. Full support for OCI images, sandboxed containers, and snapshotter plugins for advanced storage configurations.
We support alternative CNI and runtime configurations per client request — Calico, Flannel, Weave for CNI; CRI-O or gVisor for runtime isolation. Every component is selected based on workload requirements, not vendor preference.
Every VKS cluster can operate fully air-gapped. Container images are served from VCR. OS updates flow through VPR. DNS resolution goes through VDS. No node ever needs to reach the public internet. This is the default configuration for private cloud deployments.