The Image Factory provides a way to download Talos Linux artifacts. Artifacts can be generated with customizations defined by a "schematic". A schematic can be applied to any of the versions of Talos Linux offered by the Image Factory to produce a "model".

The following assets are provided:

• ISO
• kernel, initramfs, and kernel command line
• UKI
• disk images in various formats (e.g. AWS, GCP, VMware, etc.)
• installer container images

The supported frontends are:

• HTTP
• PXE
• Container Registry

The official Image Factory is available at https://factory.talos.dev.

• API reference
• Configuration
• Required Source Container Images
• Air-gapped Deployment
• Cache
• Developing Image Factory
• Helm Chart

The Image Factory is licensed under the Mozilla Public License, version 2.0, except for the code in the enterprise/ folder, which is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1.

The enterprise code is not included in the open source version of Image Factory, and it is not built by default.