System Extensions, Simplified: Live Customization with Kairos
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 in Blog
🔧 System Extensions, Simplified: Live Customization with Kairos Kairos has always focused on making operating system deployments more predictable, reproducible, and manageable—especially in edge and embedded environments. But for all the benefits of …
Kairos Meets k0s: A Meta-Distribution for Kubernetes is Born
Wednesday, April 02, 2025 in Blog
Up until now, Kairos has shipped with first-class support for k3s out of the box. If you wanted something else? You had to rely on community-powered providers. And let’s be honest, while amazing in their own right, they’ve been… fragmented. …
How We Rebuilt Kairos building From the Ground Up
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 in Blog
🧱 Introduction Building Kairos has always been about more than assembling images — it’s about shaping a flexible, powerful OS tailored for the edge. Over the past couple of years, we’ve learned a lot while navigating how to build and …
How I Automated My Doorbell with Kairos (and You Can Too)
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 in Blog
Picture this: You’re deep in focus, coding away, and the doorbell rings. Except… you never hear it. The mailman leaves, and now your package is on an adventure you didn’t plan for. That’s exactly what happened to me, so I did what any geek …
Kairos Joins the CNCF as a Sandbox Project
Tuesday, October 08, 2024 in Blog
We’re thrilled to announce that since April 2024, Kairos has been officially part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox Project. This marks an important milestone for Kairos and, more importantly, for our entire community of …
Hacktoberfest 2024
Monday, October 07, 2024 in Blog
I can’t believe it’s already October. I’ve been so busy following up on different events where we’ve brought some of the Kairos love that I forgot about Hacktoberfest. Thankfully, the month isn’t over so let’s get …
Enhancing Kairos Documentation with a Customizable Flavor Menu
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 in Blog
Kairos is versatile, supporting various Linux distributions such as openSUSE Leap, Ubuntu 24.04, and more. Our primary objective is to empower users to continue working with their preferred Linux distribution seamlessly. However, our previous …
Our First Hackweek
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 in Blog
Last week was a special week. We had our first hackweek! With everyone in the team connecting from their own corners of the world, Belgium, Greece, Italy and Spain, we came together not in person, but through a shared passion for hacking. Unlike …
Adding Analytics to Kairos.io
Thursday, August 01, 2024 in Blog
We recently added analytics to our website. We were hesitant about this before because we are committed to your privacy and didn’t like the idea of setting up Google Analytics. Thankfully, we’ve found a good open-source solution that is …
The Importance of Resilient Infrastructure: How Kairos Could Have Mitigated the CrowdStrike Outage
Monday, July 22, 2024 in Blog
The recent CrowdStrike update fiasco that wreaked havoc across industries, causing BSODs and crippling critical systems, starkly highlights the need for resilient and immutable infrastructure. If affected organizations had adopted an immutable OS …