Talos Kubernetes Cluster

API VIP: 192.168.86.100 | CP: .101 (tower1) | Workers: .111 (thinkcentre2), .112 (thinkcentre3), .113 (zotac)

Talos Linux is an immutable, API-driven Kubernetes OS. No SSH -- all management through talosctl and kubectl.

Nodes

Role	IP	VM ID	Host	Resources
Control Plane	192.168.86.101	400	tower1	2 cores, 4GB RAM, 50GB (Ceph)
Worker 0	192.168.86.111	410	thinkcentre2	4 cores, 8GB RAM, 100GB (Ceph)
Worker 1	192.168.86.112	411	thinkcentre3	4 cores, 8GB RAM, 100GB (Ceph)
Worker 2	192.168.86.113	412	zotac	4 cores, 8GB RAM, 100GB (Ceph)

Bootstrap

export CLUSTER_VIP="192.168.86.100"
export CONTROLPLANE_IPS="192.168.86.101"
export WORKER_IPS="192.168.86.111,192.168.86.112,192.168.86.113"
make bootstrap
make kubeconfig

Verify

export KUBECONFIG=talos/_out/kubeconfig
kubectl get nodes
talosctl --talosconfig talos/_out/talosconfig health

Namespaces

• ingress-system -- Traefik / Ingress controllers
• apps -- Application workloads
• monitoring -- kube-state-metrics, node-exporter
• metallb-system -- MetalLB L2 load balancer

MetalLB

L2 mode, IP pool: 192.168.86.150 - 192.168.86.199

make k8s-base-metallb

Upgrades

talosctl upgrade --nodes 192.168.86.101 --image ghcr.io/siderolabs/installer:v1.12.5
# Then workers one at a time