London-based cloud native consultancy LiveWyer has released TAMOSS, an open-source, Kubernetes-native implementation of the Time-Addressable Media Store (TAMS) v8.0 API.
TAMOSS is an independent implementation of the BBC TAMS specification and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BBC.
Published under the Apache 2.0 license, TAMOSS lets any organisation run a fully functional, TAMS-compatible media store on its own infrastructure, whether that’s from a laptop or a production cluster, said the company.
TAMOSS installs as an operator-driven product. A Kubernetes operator reconciles custom resources into the running API, worker, web UI, storage and routing, with three deployment profiles (local-kind, single-server, multi-server) that carry a project from local evaluation to production, added LiveWyer.
The implementation supports managed or external PostgreSQL, S3-compatible storage, OAuth2/OIDC authentication and HTTP ingress, and includes day-2 controls such as drift correction and deletion protection.
“TAMS is becoming foundational to modern media workflows, but adopting it shouldn’t mean locking yourself into one vendor or one cloud,” said David O’Dwyer, director, LiveWyer. “We built TAMOSS so any team can run a real, conformant TAMS store on Kubernetes. It’s open source, self-hostable, and ready for production.”
