Talos is really awesome, its a minimal OS strictly built to run kubernetes. We use it at work and its running in production for a lot of people. Its extremely minimal and can only be used via its own api, talosctl command. Its minimalism makes it great for security and less resource heavy than alternatives.

Check this out for a quick’ funny taste of why one should consider using Talos >>

[60sec video from Sidero Labs, creators of Talos] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiJYaU16rYU

Talos is under MPL 2.0, afaik that is open-source.

Oh damn, how nice! Ill look into that for sure 😊

Jupp running that too 😅 Was not aware of the pensing feature, ill keep my eyes open for that in the future!

As i wrote in my post, im already using uptimekuma to monitor my services. However if i choose the “docker container” mode foe uptimekuma to monitor it cant actually so that, as there is no health feature in most containers, so this results in 100% downtime 🙃 Other way would to do it would to just check the url of the service whoch ofc works too, but its not a “true” health check.

Nice one that, fortunately i just rebuilt my server with an i5-12400 new fancy case amd slowly transitioning to an all in ssd build! I would probably lean towards a singlenode cluster using Talos.

Yeah fair enough this, personally want to monitor backend services too just for good measure. Also to prove to my friends and family that i can maintain a higher uptime % than cloudflare 🤣

I assume you then also use apprise as middleman here or?

Maybe a transition to a cluster homelab should be the goal of 2026, would be fun.

This is a neat little inspect command indeed!

Thanks for your input 👍

Yeah eventually i will transition to this but not until after i migrate away from Unraid for more granular control. Looking forward to it though!

Thanks for this very in depth answer, learned a lot from this 🫶

I ended up using Dynv6, great and simple serivce does exactly what I need. Made in Germany.

https://dynv6.com/