Kairos Linux

Kairos is a cloud-native meta-Linux distribution that runs on Kubernetes and brings the power of the public cloud to your on-premises environment. With Kairos, you can build your own cloud with complete control and no vendor lock-in.

Kairos is the open-source project that simplifies Edge, cloud, and bare metal OS lifecycle management. With a unified Cloud Native API, Kairos is community-driven, open source, and distro agnostic.

With Kairos you can build immutable, bootable Kubernetes and OS images for your edge devices as easily as writing a Dockerfile. Optional P2P mesh with distributed ledger automates node bootstrapping and coordination. Updating nodes is as easy as CI/CD: push a new image to your container registry and let secure, risk-free A/B atomic upgrades do the rest.

Here are a few reasons why you should try Kairos:

• Build your own cloud on-premises with complete control and no vendor lock-in
• Provision nodes with your own image or use Kairos releases for added flexibility
• Use Kairos for a wide range of use cases, from Kubernetes applications to appliances and more
• Simple and streamlined day-2 operations (e.g. node upgrades)