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Hello, newbie here to Talos Linux. My aim is to have a working cluster on a DeskPi cluster board with 5 Raspberry Pi CM4s. I'm looking into getting them provisioned via netbooting using Matchbox. In such a setup, will Talos run from RAM after netbooting, or is the OS installed on the disk? I would prefer the latter to prevent a netboot after possible reboots. |
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Talos can PXE boot easily, but it will require to be installed to disk once the machine config is available. |
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With some beefy servers having hundreds of gigabyte of memory, would it be possible to "install" talos into a ramdisk? This would fully embrace the ephemeral mindset, especially when using PXE, and leave the stateful disks to the kubernetes workloads. |
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yes, certainly doable, just nobody volunteered to implement or support this feature, but there are some people asking about it |
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i was looking to install talos via pxe in a small homelab cluster of 4 PIs and I would like to avoid putting any SDs or usb sticks into them, this or some remote mounted disk would greatly help |
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it might be released eventually as part of #8367 story |
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Talos can PXE boot easily, but it will require to be installed to disk once the machine config is available.