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 …
Kairos release v3.1.1
Friday, July 19, 2024 in Blog
We are thrilled to announce the release of Kairos v3.1.1! This patch release is a bugfix and security release. Key Features and Updates All binaries built with latest go version (1.22.5) To enhance security and address existing CVEs, we updated the …
Kairos release v3.1
Thursday, July 11, 2024 in Blog
We are thrilled to announce the release of Kairos v3.1.0! This update brings a host of significant enhancements to further secure and streamline your edge computing environment. Key Features and Updates Unified Kernel Images (UKI) Measured …
Unlocking the Mysteries of Trusted Boot: A Deep Dive into Secure System Boot Processes
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 in Blog
In the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, protecting the integrity of computing systems from the moment they power on has become very important. As threats become more sophisticated, understanding and implementing advanced boot security mechanisms …
xz Utils Backdoor
Tuesday, April 02, 2024 in Blog
It’s all over the tech news. Someone managed to put a backdoor on xz Utils, a very common package on Linux systems. In this post I want to share with you about what happened, how it impacted Kairos images, and what you should do in case you …
SPOS Panel at KubeCon Paris 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 in Blog
I recently had the opportunity to attend KubeCon 2024. You can find my recap at the Spectro Cloud Blog, but I’d like to add some additional information about the Special Purpose Operating System Panel in which we participated. The panel was …
Kairos release v3
Friday, March 08, 2024 in Blog
The team is very excited to announce the next major release of Kairos, Kairos v3! This release marks a major milestone in our roadmap by adding support for Unified Kernel Images (UKI). This will enhance the level of security that you can achieve on …
Kairos at FOSDEM 2024
Tuesday, February 06, 2024 in Blog
Last year I said you could expect Kairos to engage further during FOSDEM. And I’m quite pleased to say that’s exactly what we did! As part of the open-source ecosystem, we recognize the importance of participating in these types of …
Kairos release v2.5
Thursday, January 11, 2024 in Blog
Happy new year to all of you in the Kairos community! This 2024, we have many great plans that we want to achieve. You can find more about them in our roadmap. We start the year with the release of Kairos v2.5.0. This time, we focused on the ground …
Kairos release v2.4.2
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 in Blog
Did you ever look at a release and couldn’t decide if it should be a patch, a minor or a major version bump? It has happened to everybody (if not, let me know). This Kairos release was a similar case. We didn’t introduce any breaking …