talos-install 0.2.0

E4 CLI Manager

All in One installation

Deploy requirements

Currrent Talos-cli version is still not public, a dev_key is required for deployment.

Ask a dev_key and dev_key.pub to save in your $HOME/.ssh folder.

OS requirements

• The supported OS is Rocky Linux 8. Other Rhel like distributions should works, but aren't tested yet.

• An user with sudo permissions is MANDATORY, don't use root directly.

Packages

• python = 3.9
• pip = 3.9

sudo dnf install epel-release -y

# Install Python 3.9 requirements
sudo dnf install python39  python39-pip sshpass -y

# Update pip
pip3.9 install --upgrade pip

# Install package
pip install talos-install

Installation

The talos_install package can be runned with these options:

• precheck: to prepare system with base requirements
• deploy: to install components
• build: to recreate docker images and pull on docker Hub (only for authorized developper)
• remove: to remove main settings and confurations.

Note that remove doesn't remove installed packages (like docker) and doesn't return to original settings (like selinux or firewalld).

inventory

File <pip_environment>/share/talos_install/etc/inventory is dinamically create at code level. Changes to this file by user are tatally ignored during execution.

ansible.cfg

The default ansible configuration should not be changed. By default the display_ok_hosts parameter is set to false. If you need to display also the OK state please comment the row in <pip_environment>/share/talos_install/ansible/ansible.cfg

talos.yaml

Change configuration of config file <pip_environment>/share/talos_install/etc/talos.yaml to change users configuration. Is not allow to add or delete master and guest configuration

global.yaml

Change configuration of config file <pip_environment>/share/talos_install/etc/global.yaml to change customer configuration.

Run Installation precheck

talos_install precheck

A list of change will be shown for user approval. Use -y to confirm automatically.

Run Installation deploy

talos_install deploy

A list of change will be shown for user approval. Use -y to confirm automatically.

Post installation

Then need to validate configuration. First access as talos user:

sudo su - talos

By default setup is automatically done during deploy:

<pip_environment>/share/talos_cli/etc/talos.yaml

talos_conf: use_default: 'true'

If necessary run setup

 talos-config setup

Load initial configuration

talos-config reload

Check Key Pairs with Talos-cli (needed for update only)

talos-config git_keys

Check Overall status

talos-config check