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The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes

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.

  • :bowtie: Community Driven
  • :octocat: Open Source
  • 🔒 Linux immutable, meta-distribution
  • 🔑 Secure
  • 🐳 Container based
  • 🐧 Distribution agnostic

Nodes are configured via cloud-init and supports zero-touch configuration and complete lifecycle management with CAPI.

The Kairos 'factory' enables you to build custom bootable OS images for your edge devices, from your choice of OS (including openSUSE, Alpine and Ubuntu) and your choice of edge Kubernetes distribution - Kairos is totally agnostic.

Getting Started 📚

Contributing 🙌

That's awesome! 🥳 We welcome any contribution!

If you wish to start contributing, and want to understand more our process check out also:

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  1. kairos Public

    The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes.

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  2. provider-kairos Public

    🌱 k3s and optional libp2p support for Kairos. Build decentralized cluster with libp2p that stretch across 1000km!

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  3. osbuilder Public

    🏗️ Kubernetes Native Extension to build Linux distributions artifacts from container images

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  4. entangle Public

    🔗 Entangle kubernetes connections running on remote clusters, also behind NAT

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  5. kcrypt Public

    🛡️ Cloud native guardian for persistent data in the edge

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  6. AuroraBoot Public

    🐣 Kairos bootstrapper

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  • kairos Public

    The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes.

    Go 1,293 Apache-2.0 105 375 (7 issues need help) 12 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • kairos-docs Public

    📖 Kairos documentation

    HTML 2 Apache-2.0 25 1 8 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • community-bundles Public

    🌱 Kairos community-bundles. A 📖 cookbook for your immutable deployments!

    Shell 10 Apache-2.0 9 1 13 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • osbuilder Public

    🏗️ Kubernetes Native Extension to build Linux distributions artifacts from container images

    Go 17 9 4 6 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • go-ukify Public
    Go 3 MPL-2.0 1 1 4 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • AuroraBoot Public

    🐣 Kairos bootstrapper

    Go 19 Apache-2.0 7 1 11 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • netboot Public

    Packages and utilities for network booting

    Go 1 Apache-2.0 0 1 7 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • packages.kairos.io Public

    📦 package browser website

    0 Apache-2.0 0 1 1 Updated Apr 15, 2025
  • kairos-agent Public

    🔧 Lifecycle agent for kairos

    Go 7 Apache-2.0 9 2 5 Updated Apr 14, 2025
  • packages Public

    🐳 Cross-distribution packages as standalone OCI images

    Shell 6 Apache-2.0 11 1 2 Updated Apr 14, 2025