Talos Configs

This is a repository containing my personal Talos configs. These nodes have my home cluster Flux repository running on them.

I name my control plane nodes after the Greek alphabet and my worker nodes in the reverse Greek alphabet. i.e. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, etc. for control-plane nodes and Omega, Psi, Chi, etc. for worker nodes.

The control plane nodes are hosted at my home and are AMD-based systems, except for gamma which is an AMD CPU but an Nvidia GPU. The worker nodes are ran out of some AWS reserved instances I have.

Usage

The generate.sh script uses Talos' talosctl to generate the configs. If you don't have an existing secrets.yaml file, it will generate one for you. This script also generates YAML files for each node by taking the node-specific patches in nodename.patch.yaml along with the base config in controlplane.common.yaml and merging them together. These configs are named nodename.yaml and should be in the .gitignore file, as these contain secrets and certificates.

Example output:

$ ./generate.sh
Note: No secrets.yaml found, using 'talosctl gen secrets' to create it...
Warning: Save your secrets.yaml somewhere safe!
generating PKI and tokens
Created controlplane.yaml

Then, apply the node configs with talosctl -n ip.to.your.node apply-config -f nodename.yaml

Modifying

If you want to use these configs as a base for your own, you can fork this repository and modify the controlplane.common.yaml file to your liking and modify the extensions in schematic.*yaml. You can also modify the nodename.patch.yaml files to change the node-specific configs. If you want to add more nodes, you can create a new nodename.patch.yaml file and add it to the generate.sh script.

Wants/TODOs

• Disk encryption
• Ability to configure RAID0 for the root partition