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title: "init"
date: 2018-10-29T19:40:55-07:00
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A common theme throughout the design of Talos is minimalism.
We believe strongly in the UNIX philosophy that each program should do one job well.
The `init` included in Talos is one example of this.

We wanted to create a focused `init` that had one job - run Kubernetes.
There simply is no mechanism in place to do anything else.

To accomplish this, we must address real world operations needs like:

- Orchestration around creating a highly available control plane
- Log retrieval
- Restarting system services
- Rebooting a node
- and more

In the following sections we will take a closer look at how these needs are addressed, and how services managed by `init` are designed to enhance the Kubernetes experience.