🚀 Bootstrap

1. Setup talos nodes: task talos:bootstrap
2. Push private key: task flux:github-deploy-key
3. Setup Flux : task flux:bootstrap

🛠️ Talos and Kubernetes Maintenance

⚙️ Updating Talos node configuration

[!IMPORTANT] Ensure you have updated talconfig.yaml and any patches with your updated configuration. In some cases you not only need to apply the configuration but also upgrade talos to apply new configuration.

# (Re)generate the Talos config
task talos:generate-config
# Apply the config to the node
task talos:apply-node HOSTNAME=? MODE=?
# e.g. task talos:apply-config HOSTNAME=k8s-0 MODE=auto

⬆️ Updating Talos and Kubernetes versions

[!IMPORTANT] Ensure the talosVersion and kubernetesVersion in talhelper.yaml are up-to-date with the version you wish to upgrade to.

# Upgrade node to a newer Talos version
task talos:upgrade-node NODE=?
# e.g. task talos:upgrade HOSTNAME=k8s-0

# Upgrade cluster to a newer Kubernetes version
task talos:upgrade-k8s
# e.g. task talos:upgrade-k8s

🔧 Hardware

Name	Device	CPU	OS Disk	Data Disk(s)	RAM	OS	Purpose
Fitz	Dell Optiplex 3080 Micro	i5-10500T	500GB NVMe	1TB SSD	32GB	Talos	K8S Control Plane
Nighteyes	Dell Optiplex 3080 Micro	i5-10500T	500GB NVMe	1TB SSD	32GB	Talos	K8S Control Plane
Chade	Dell Optiplex 3080 Micro	i5-10500T	500GB NVMe	1TB SSD	32GB	Talos	K8S Control Plane
Fool	Dell Optiplex 3090 Micro	i5-10500T	500GB NVMe	1TB SSD	64GB	Talos	K8S Worker
Burrich	Dell Optiplex 3090 Micro	i5-10500T	500GB NVMe	1TB SSD	64GB	Talos	K8S Worker
Bee	Dell Optiplex 3090 Micro	i5-10500T	500GB NVMe	1TB SSD	64GB	Talos	K8S Worker
Verity	DIY NAS	Ryzen 5 Pro 5650G	1TB NVMe	4*18TB + 2*22TB (mirrored vdevs)	32GB	TrueNAS SCALE	NAS (NFS/Backup)
Shrewd	Synology DS1520+	-	-	5*4TB (RAID 5)	-	-	NAS (NFS/Backup)
Chivalry	UniFi Dream Pro Max	-	-	-	-	-	Router
Molly	UniFi Switch Pro Max 24	-	-	-	-	-	2.5Gb Switch

☁️ Cloud Services

Service	Use	Cost
Pushover	Alerts & Notifications	5$ one-time purchase
Cloudflare	Domain	Free
GitHub	Hosting this repository and continuous integration/deployments	Free

🖥️ Tech Stack

	Name	Description
	Kubernetes	An open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
	FluxCD	GitOps tool for deploying applications to Kubernetes
	Talos Linux	Talos Linux is Linux designed for Kubernetes
	Cilium	GitOps tool for deploying applications to Kubernetes
	containerd	Container runtime integrated with Talos Linux
	CoreDNS	A DNS server that operates via chained plugins
	Prometheus	Monitoring system and time series database
	Helm	The Kubernetes package manager
	OpenEBS	Container-attached storage
	Rook Ceph	Highly scalable distributed storage solution for block storage, object storage, and shared filesystems
	OpenTelemetry	Making robust, portable telemetry a built in feature of cloud-native software.
	Cert Manager	X.509 certificate management for Kubernetes
	Grafana	Analytics & monitoring solution for every database.
	Loki	Horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system
	Alloy	Open source distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector that supports metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.