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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. To that extent, `init` is relatively static in that it does not allow for arbitrary user defined services. Only the services necessary to run Kubernetes and manage the node are available. This includes:

- [containerd](/docs/components/containerd)
- [kubeadm](/docs/components/kubeadm)
- [kubelet](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/)
- [networkd](/docs/components/networkd)
- [ntpd](/docs/components/ntpd)
- [osd](/docs/components/osd)
- [proxyd](/docs/components/proxyd)
- [trustd](/docs/components/trustd)
- [udevd](/docs/components/udevd)