Comment by franga2000

For free as in "don't have to do anything to make those features, they're included".

What costs are you talking about? Packaging your app in a container is already quite common so if you already do that all you need to do is replace your existing yaml with a slightly different yaml.

If you don't do that already, it's not really that difficult. Just copy-paste your your install script or rewrite your Ansible playbooks into a Dockerfile. Enjoy the free security boost as well.

What are the other costs? Maintaining something like Talos is actually less work than a normal Linux distro. You already hopefully have a git repo and CI for testing and QA, so adding a "build and push a container" step is a simple one-time change. What am I missing here?