Awesome Talos

Collection of awesome talos resource from the community

Table of Contents

• Examples
• Community Extensions
• Hardware
• Libraries
• Management
• Talos-Based Projects
• Tools

Examples

• Boot to Talos Convert any live Linux distro to Talos
• nextboot-talos Convert installed Linux systems, such as a VPSes, to Talos
• Talos contrib Talos examples in multiple clouds with multiple infrastructure tools
• Talos azure Example configuration of running Talos on Azure with Pulumi
• Talos on Proxmox Example configuration of running Talos on Proxmox with Kubemox
• Terraform Talos Multi-cloud terraform examples for Talos
• Terraform Talos Hetzner Terraform modules for Talos on Hetzner

Extensions

• chaosd Extension for Chaos Mesh
• FRR Free Range Routing for Talos including BGP

Hardware

• Turing Pi v2 Talos on Jetson Nano cluster

Orange Pi5 and Turing RK1 Are Officaly Supported by Talos after 1.9

• Orange Pi 5 Support for Orange Pi SBC
• Turing RK1 Support Turing RK1 Compute module
• x86_64 UFS Custom Talos Linux builds with UFS (Universal Flash Storage) driver support for x86_64 devices

Talos-Based Projects

• cozystack An open-source PaaS platform for cloud providers based on Talos Linux
• harbor-turnkey Harbor as a turnkey solution: running on a Kubernetes single node cluster using Talos Linux and Proxmox VE. Provisioning with OpenTofu. Works nicely as pull through image cache for a bigger Talos cluster.
• kargo ContainerCraft Kubevirt PaaS Undercloud

Libraries

• talos-linux-api 🐍 Python bindings for the Talos Linux gRPC API
• SideroLabs.Omni.Api .NET gRPC library for Omni

Management

• cluster-template Opinionated template for deployment a talos cluster
• Hcloud Kubernetes Terraform Module to Deploy a Highly Available, Production-Ready Talos Kubernetes Cluster on Hetzner Cloud
• Kangal-Patch Automates rolling upgrades of Talos Linux nodes in Kubernetes clusters, handling draining, updates, and reboots safely.
• Kubernetes as a Service Example Terraform deployment on Proxmox
• proxmox-talos-opentofu A turnkey Kubernetes cluster built with Talos Linux running on a Proxmox VE hypervisor. Cilium CNI. Provisioning with OpenTofu.
• terraform proxmox cluster Deploy a Talos OS-based cluster in Proxmox using Terraform, with Cilium and ArgoCD
• terraform vsphere cluster Deploy a Kubernetes cluster based on Talos OS in vSphere
• terraform vsphere vm Deploy a Talos OS-based vSphere virtual machine in vSphere
• Talos Hetzner Dedicated Control CLI to create Talos based Kubernetes clusters with Hetzner dedicated servers
• Talos Operator A Kubernetes operator to manage Talos Linux clusters on Kubernetes
• TJ's Kubernetes Service Terraform template for running HA Talos cluster on Proxmox
• turnk8s Deploy Talos Linux based turnkey k8s clusters in a GitOps way on Proxmox with Netris and ArgoCD
• talos-controlplane-on-k8s Run a Talos controlplane inside a Kubernetes cluster
• Talos CSR Signer gRPC Server satisfying securityapi signature to let Talos-based worker nodes join a kubeadm-based Kubernetes Hosted Control Plane
• tuppr Kubernetes controller to upgrade Talos and Kubernetes

Tools

• ClusterTool An opinionated tool for deployment and management of Talos-Based clusters
• Pulumi provider Deploy Talos with Pulumi
• talhelper A tool to help creating Talos configuration files declaratively
• Talm A Helm-like utility for declarative configuration management of Talos Linux
• talos-ansible-playbooks Ansible playbooks to manage Talos Linux deployments
• talos-bootstrap An interactive Talos Linux installer
• talos-incus A simplestream server that proxies Talos images for use with Incus
• talos-pilot A TUI for real-time node monitoring, log streaming, etcd health, diagnostics, and node actions
• talswitcher A simple tool to help manage multiple talosconfig files
• TOPF Manages Talos cluster lifecycle with layered patches and SOPS support