home-services/TALOS.md

TALOS Configuration

Prior and separate to this build chain, Talos needs to be configured. Here are the steps that were completed.

Reference: https://docs.siderolabs.com/talos/v1.14/platform-specific-installations/virtualized-platforms/kvm

Note that kubectl, talosctl, and terraform were installed using homebrew prior.

# Setting up VMs
mkdir -p ~/vm/talos/configs
cd ~/vm/talos/configs
vim my-talos-net.xml
sudo virsh net-define my-talos-net.xml
sudo virsh net-start my-talos-net
sudo virsh net-autostart my-talos-net
sudo mv ~/downloads/metal-arm64.iso /var/lib/libvirt/images/
sudo chown root: /var/lib/libvirt/images/metal-amd64.iso
sudo virt-install --virt-type kvm --name control-plane-node-1 --ram 2048 --vcpus 2 --disk path=control-plane-node-1-disk.qcow2,bus=virtio,size=40,format=qcow2 --cdrom metal-amd64.iso --os-variant=linux2022 --network network=my-talos-net --boot hd,cdrom --noautoconsole
sudo virt-install --virt-type kvm --name worker-node-1 --ram 4096 --vcpus 4 --disk path=control-plane-node-1-disk.qcow2,bus=virtio,size=40,format=qcow2 --cdrom metal-amd64.iso --os-variant=linux2022 --network network=my-talos-net --boot hd,cdrom --noautoconsole

Note that the VMs are booted into the ISO and terraform initiates the install and cluster build.