An ansible playbook for deploying Talos Linux to a Turing Pi 2 cluster with four Turing RK1 modules.

Update hosts.ini and all.yaml

Update inventory/hosts.ini and inventory/group_vars/all.yaml for your IP addresses, usernames, passwords, etc.

Run the full playbook (this WILL erase/flash your Turing Pi modules!):

ansible-playbook site.yaml -i inventory/hosts.ini --ask-become-pass

If you must enter a password for sudo, --ask-become-pass will prompt for sudo password at script start.

If you don't need a password for sudo, you can omit the --asl-become-pass argument.

Skip specific tasks:

ansible-playbook site.yaml -i inventory/hosts.ini --ask-become-pass --skip-tags "flash-modules"

Run only specific tasks:

ansible-playbook site.yaml -i inventory/hosts.ini --ask-become-pass --tags "install-tpi,install-talosctl"

List of tasks that can be skipped or ran individually/specifically:

• install-tpi - Download and install tpi deb via https://github.com/turing-machines/tpi
• install-talosctl - Download and install talosctl via https://github.com/siderolabs/talos
• download-talos - Download Talos image via https://factory.talos.dev/
• flash-modules - Flash downloaded image to four RK1 nodes in Turing Pi 2
  • flash-module-1 - Flash node 1
  • flash-module-2 - Flash node 2
  • flash-module-3 - Flash node 3
  • flash-module-4 - Flash node 4
• configure-cluster - Generate Talos config (controlplane.yaml, worker.yaml, talosconfig)
• apply-config - Apply the cluster config to the control plane
• configure-talosctl - Bootstrap the cluster and generate kubeconfig
• add-workers - Add worker nodes to the cluster

Credits:

This was built using JamesTurland's (aka Jim's Garage) Talos ansible playbook as a starting point: https://github.com/JamesTurland/JimsGarage/tree/main/Ansible/Playbooks/Talos

YouTube video walkthrough of that ansible playbook can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP8hVq1lCxM