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Around 90MB when downloaded compress. Not Sure am I the only one who is interested in its size when I see the word minimal.

90MB is the size of the kernel, our init binary (written in go), the 12 binaries we include by default, and various required config files and drivers https://www.siderolabs.com/blog/there-are-only-12-binaries-i...

It probably accounts for the k8s release unless they download it post-boot?

K8s binaries are downloaded separately. Specifically they’re downloaded and run inside containers on the host.