Talos is OS running in the host. You can run in the pod whatever you need. Also you shouldn't really use pod OS to debug it. Kubernetes supports debug containe

Talos is OS running in the host. You can run in the pod whatever you need. Also you shouldn't really use pod OS to debug it. Kubernetes supports debug containers: you launch a separate container (presumably with convenient debug environment) and mounts selected container rootfs inside, so you can inspect it as needed. It also helps, when the target container does not work and you can't just exec into it. There's a recommendation to remove everything from the container that's not necessary for running a given program, that reduces attack surface.