Bootstrapping my new bare-metal kubernetes cluster with talos

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:12:52 +0200

After using proxmox on my homelab for a few years and virtualizing my workloads (both kubernetes and regular VMs), i decided that i wanted to 1) remove the virtualization overhead as i was just wasting resources on a virtualization-layer i did not want to maintain, and 2) make the switch from k3s to Talos for my kubernetes clusters (calling it a “cluster” is a stretch as i currently just have one node).

K3s is a great technology for running kubernetes with a low footprint, but for the same reason i wanted to move away from proxmox, i wanted to move away from k3s because i really do not care about maintaining the OS of my kubernetes node(s). Granted, there is a certain level of “OS-management” you have to do on Talos aswell, but the scope is considerably smaller and is reasonably easy to perform using talosctl instead of spending a lot of time writing ansible-playbooks.

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Bootstrapping my new bare-metal kubernetes cluster with talos