An Open-Source, Kubernetes-native implementation of the BBC TAMS API.
LiveWyer, the London-based Cloud Native and Kubernetes consultancy, today released TAMOSS, an open-source, Kubernetes-native implementation of the BBC Time-Addressable Media Store (TAMS) v8.0 API. Published under the Apache 2.0 license, it 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. No proprietary licensing, no vendor lock-in.
TAMS, developed by BBC Research & Development, has become one of broadcast’s most closely watched standards, winning the IABM Industry Partnership Award at IBC2025 and gaining backing from AWS, Reuters and others. It stores media as immutable, timestamped segments accessed by reference through an open API, enabling faster “edit-by-reference” workflows and the convergence of live and file-based production. Much of that momentum has been cloud-hosted or vendor-specific. TAMOSS offers a portable, open alternative that teams can run and own end to end.
TAMOSS installs as an operator-driven product. A Kubernetes operator (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/extend-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. It 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,” 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.”TAMOSS is available now under the Apache 2.0 license at https://github.com/livewyer-ops/tamoss. Want to know more? Contact LiveWyer at https://livewyer.io/tamoss-contact.
