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Let's document: talosctl

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Description

Command description

A CLI for out-of-band management of Kubernetes nodes created by Talos

Documentation

https://www.talos.dev/v1.9/reference/cli/

Platform

Common

VCS repository link (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

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Additional information

Talos is a container-optimized Linux distro, a reimagining of Linux for distributed systems such as Kubernetes. Designed to be as minimal as possible while still maintaining practicality. For these reasons, Talos has a number of features unique to it:

  • it is immutable
  • it is atomic
  • it is ephemeral
  • it is minimal
  • it is secure by default
  • it is managed via a single declarative configuration file and gRPC API

Talos can be deployed on container, cloud, virtualized, and bare metal platforms.

Commands

  • talosctl #18409
    • apply-config
    • edit
    • get
    • bootstrap
    • kubeconfig
    • reset

Contributor guide

Research direction
Read the official Talos documentation for talosctl, review existing pages in the tldr pages repository to understand the format, and create a new page covering all listed subcommands.
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