That's, in my opinion, a pretty vanilla starter stack. Could probably argue that you don't need replicated storage, and that ArgoCD is nicer to look at, but Tal

That's, in my opinion, a pretty vanilla starter stack. Could probably argue that you don't need replicated storage, and that ArgoCD is nicer to look at, but Talos in particular simplifies a lot of the deployment because there's not much of an OS to configure or keep updated.