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title: KairOS vs Talos

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# KairOS vs Talos



| Criteria               | Talos              | Kairos             |
| ---------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------ |
| Immutable              | :white_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: |
| Custom meta layers     | :x:                | :white_check_mark: |
| Single node cluster    | :x:                | :white_check_mark: |
| OCI based              | :x:                | :white_check_mark: |
| Distro Agnostic                       |             :x:       |             :white_check_mark:       |
| Backed by              | Sidero Labs        | SpectroCloud       |
| Latest release version | 1.3                | 1.5                |
