OS and Images

Allow image installers to run in UEFI mode

Customers don't need full GUI for production Hyper-V hosts. Server core is more stable, needs less patching, has lower attack surface, is more stable and less server resources are consumed to run it.

Add support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Support for all Gen3 platforms.

Would it be possible to have Talos Linux in Equinix Metal with a more specific description? Talos is declarative, like an image, one can not do apt get upgrade so it is important to know that you're deploying a specific version. The current version of Talos Linux is v1.3.3, but in Metal it is listed as talos_v1 which seems a bit confusing. Speaking with the Sidera Labs crew, they confirm that the configuration format is important up to the minor version (currently v1.3). A fair middle ground could be calling it talos_v1.3 in the API and portal.

CentOS 8 will go EOL on December 31, 2021. In order to prepare for the transition to CentOS Stream could you make a separate image available for testing Stream? One can swap the existing CentOS 8 images over to Stream with dnf commands, but we use Equinix Metal as a platform for our CI, and running dnf to swap to stream will potentially require a reboot and add a lot of time to our deployments. Thanks!