- talos/: generated base config (gitignored) + patches for control-plane scheduling, unprivileged ports and the ingress firewall - kubernetes/: sish base and cirrus-dev overlay, applied with kubectl - READMEs incl. production rollout plan Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Talos: cirrus edge node
Single-node Talos control plane that runs only sish. Talos and Kubernetes are managed by hand
with talosctl/kubectl (no Flux).
| File | |
|---|---|
controlplane.yaml |
Base config, unmodified output of talosctl gen config (gitignored, contains the cluster PKI) |
worker.yaml |
Generated worker config, unused on a single node (gitignored) |
talosconfig |
Admin client config for talosctl (gitignored) |
patches/*.yaml |
Every change to the base config |
export TALOSCONFIG=talos/talosconfig # run from the repo root
N="-n 10.20.5.130 -e 10.20.5.130"
Base config + patches
The base file is never edited by hand; all changes live in patches/. The node's config is
therefore always controlplane.yaml + patches/*.yaml, which keeps changes reviewable and lets
a newly generated base (new node, new Talos defaults) get the same changes by reapplying the
patches. talosctl patch mc merges a patch into the node's live config; it does not touch the
local files.
| Patch | Purpose |
|---|---|
control-plane-scheduling.yaml |
Drops the control-plane NoSchedule taint so sish can run on the only node |
unprivileged-ports.yaml |
ip_unprivileged_port_start=22: sish (non-root, hostNetwork) binds :22/:80/:443 |
firewall.yaml |
Ingress firewall, default block (see below) |
Apply a single patch (dry run first; use --mode try for anything that can lock you out, it
reverts automatically unless re-applied):
talosctl $N patch mc --patch @talos/patches/<patch>.yaml --mode no-reboot --dry-run
talosctl $N patch mc --patch @talos/patches/<patch>.yaml --mode no-reboot
Check that the node matches the files (expect No changes.):
talosctl machineconfig patch talos/controlplane.yaml \
$(for p in talos/patches/*.yaml; do printf -- '--patch @%s ' "$p"; done) |
talosctl $N apply-config --file /dev/stdin --dry-run
Firewall
Default action block. Loopback and replies to outgoing connections are always allowed.
| Open | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| 22, 80, 443, 2222, 20000-20099 tcp | anyone | sish (2222 = connector SSH, rest = forwards) |
| 6443, 50000 tcp | anyone | Kubernetes API, Talos API (both client-cert authenticated) |
| 53 udp/tcp | pod network 10.244.0.0/16 |
CoreDNS forwards to the Talos host DNS |
Closed: flannel VXLAN 4789/udp, etcd 2379-2383, kubelet 10250, kube-proxy 10256, trustd 50001 (open it to the node network only when a second node joins).
The sish ports must match port-bind-range in kubernetes/base/sish/config.yml. To add a raw
TCP port outside 20000-20099, change both files together.
New node
talosctl gen config <cluster-name> https://<node-ip>:6443 --install-disk <disk> -o talos/
talosctl machineconfig patch talos/controlplane.yaml \
$(for p in talos/patches/*.yaml; do printf -- '--patch @%s ' "$p"; done) |
talosctl apply-config --insecure -n <node-ip> --file /dev/stdin
talosctl --talosconfig talos/talosconfig config endpoint <node-ip>
talosctl --talosconfig talos/talosconfig -n <node-ip> bootstrap
talosctl --talosconfig talos/talosconfig -n <node-ip> kubeconfig
Back up controlplane.yaml and talosconfig outside this folder: they are the only copy of
the cluster PKI and admin credentials.