I'm a big Kubernetes fan. [Talos Linux](https://www.talos.dev/) is an interesting approach to cluster management: the host OS is slim and runs in memory, and is designed to be relatively ephemeral. This could be an interesting project to look at for running in an air-gapped environment or with little overhead. > Unlike traditional Linux, Talos Linux is not configured by SSHing to the server and issuing commands. Instead, the entire state of the machine is defined by a machine config file which is passed to the server. This allows machines to be managed in a declarative way, and lends itself to GitOps and modern operations paradigms. The state of a machine is completely defined by, and can be reproduced from, the machine configuration file.