Installing Talos Linux on Bare Metal or Virtual Machines

The first step in deploying a Cozystack cluster is to install Talos Linux on your bare-metal servers or virtual machines. Ensure the VMs or bare-metal servers are provisioned before you begin. To plan the installation, see the hardware requirements.

After installing Talos Linux, you will have a number of nodes ready to be bootstrapped with Cozystack configuration.

If this is your first time installing Cozystack, start with the Cozystack tutorial.

There are several methods to install Talos:

• Quick-start Talos from another running Linux OS.
• Install using temporary DHCP and PXE servers running in Docker containers.
• Install using ISO.

There are also specific guides for cloud providers, covering all the steps from preparing infrastructure to installing and configuring Cozystack. If that’s your case, we recommend using the guides below:

• Hetzner
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Servers.com

Finally, if you want to learn why we use Talos Linux, check out the Talos Linux overview.