Talos PXE is a project aimed at boostrapping an initial Talos cluster from a single bootable USB stick. This stick plugs into an avaiable computer and will provide a selection menu for any PXE bootable machine connected to the same network. The software is able to adapt to an existing DHCP server via proxyDHCP or provide a DHCP server of its own.

• Docker
• Golang version 1.16.7
• LinuxKit

You need to download the Talos kernel and initramfs before proceeding. These should be placed in assets:

assets/initramfs-amd64.xz
assets/vmlinuz-amd64

Generate the configuration via:

talosctl gen config -o assets talos-k8s-metal-tutorial https://controlplane.talos:8443
sed 's/type: controlplane/type: init/' assets/controlplane.yaml > assets/init.yaml

First step is building the pxe network container via:

docker build -t talos-pxe .

then that container can be converted into a bootable VM via LinuxKit:

linuxkit build -docker -format iso-bios linux.yml

(if you get a VFS error booting this image, you may need to try other formats like `raw-bios` or `raw-efi`)