failed to generate talos config: missing kind

[mdallaire]

I am reorganizing my talhelper configs by splitting up patches in their dedicated files to be called from the main files but I am getting the following error: failed to generate talos config: missing kind

There is no new configuration done, just moving existing patches to files.

talconfig.yaml

...
  - hostname: k8s-05
    ipAddress: 10.0.20.205
    controlPlane: false
    installDisk: /dev/nvme0n1
    nameservers:
      - 10.0.20.1
    networkInterfaces:
      - interface: eth0
        mtu: 1500
        addresses:
          - 10.0.20.205/24
        routes:
          - network: 0.0.0.0/0
            gateway: 10.0.20.1
    patches:
      - |-
        - op: add
          path: /machine/install/extraKernelArgs
          value:
            - nomodeset
        - "@./intel-ucode-patch.yaml"
...

intel-ucode-patch.yaml

- op: add
  path: /machine/install/extensions
  value:
    - image: ghcr.io/siderolabs/intel-ucode:20221108

[budimanjojo]

Hi! The indentation of the line - "@./intel-ucode-patch.yaml is wrong. It needs to be aligned with the first index of nodes.[].patches like this:

    patches:
      - |-
        - op: add
          path: /machine/install/extraKernelArgs
          value:
            - nomodeset
      - "@./intel-ucode-patch.yaml"

[mdallaire]

Thank you! that was exactly my problem, I had misread the sample config.

[Yan-Solo]

Hi

I was getting the same error. So now I was trying to use the default config and I'm still getting the same message. Do I hvae to take any other steps?

Thanks!

[budimanjojo]

Hi

I was getting the same error. So now I was trying to use the default config and I'm still getting the same message. Do I hvae to take any other steps?

Thanks!

Hi! Can u show me what default config are u using and what version of talhelper you're using?

[Yan-Solo]

Hi
I'm trying with v1.5.3 now. I also tried on my laptop which is running 1.5.6-1

❯ talhelper gensecret -f ./talconfig.yaml > talsecret.sops.yaml
2023/01/20 12:09:05 failed to generate secret bundle: missing kind

on ⛵ dwse-test () ~/talhelper on ☁️  (eu-west-1) 
❯ cat talconfig.yaml 
clusterName: home-cluster
talosVersion: v1.0.6
kubernetesVersion: v1.23.6
endpoint: https://192.168.200.10:6443
domain: home-cluster.local
allowSchedulingOnMasters: true
additionalMachineCertSans:
  - 192.168.200.10
additionalApiServerCertSans:
  - home-cluster.local
clusterPodNets:
  - 10.244.0.0/16
clusterSvcNets:
  - 10.96.0.0/12
cniConfig:
  name: custom
  urls:
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bjw-s/home-ops/main/infrastructure/talos/cluster-0/cni/install.yaml
nodes:
  - hostname: kmaster1
    ipAddress: 192.168.200.11
    installDiskSelector:
      size: 4GB
      model: WDC*
      name: /sys/block/sda/device/name
      busPath: /pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0
    controlPlane: true
    nodeLabels:
      rack: rack1a
      zone: us-east-1a
    disableSearchDomain: true
    kernelModules:
      - name: br_netfilter
        parameters:
          - nf_conntrack_max=131072
    nameservers:
      - 1.1.1.1
      - 8.8.8.8
    networkInterfaces:
      - interface: eth0
        addresses:
          - 192.168.200.12/24
        mtu: 1500
        routes:
          - network: 0.0.0.0/0
            gateway: 192.168.200.1
      - interface: eth1
        dhcp: true
        ignore: true
  - hostname: kworker1
    ipAddress: 192.168.200.13
    controlPlane: false
    installDisk: /dev/sdb
    patches:
      - |-
        machine:
          network:
            interfaces:
              - addresses:
                  - 192.168.200.11/24
                interface: eth1
                routes:
                  - gateway: 192.168.200.1
                  - network: 0.0.0.0/0
controlPlane:
  patches:
    - |-
      - op: add
        path: /machine/kubelet/extraArgs
        value:
          feature-gates: GracefulNodeShutdown=true,MixedProtocolLBService=true
          rotate-server-certificates: "true"
    - "@./extraKernelArgs-patch.yaml"
worker:
  patches:
    - |-
      - op: add
        path: /machine/kubelet/extraArgs
        value:
          feature-gates: GracefulNodeShutdown=false,MixedProtocolLBService=false
          rotate-server-certificates: "true"

on ⛵ dwse-test () ~/talhelper on ☁️  (eu-west-1) 
❯ talhelper --version
talhelper version 1.5.3

[Yan-Solo]

Hey again, very sorry to waste your time. Thanks for responding so quicly.
With my sleepy head I went for scenario one in the readme while I should have been using scenario 2.

So my issue was purely me failing to read documentation. Thanks for the great tool!

[budimanjojo]

@Yan-Solo Great that u solved it. But I want to also point out the error that you received is because you're giving it the wrong file. It shouldn't be talhelper gensecret -f ./talconfig.yaml > talsecret.sops.yaml but talhelper gensecret -f ./clusterconfig/clusterName-nodeName.yaml. Give it the generated talos machine config for it to read secrets from that file.