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[NorthFace21]

Hi, I am not sure if I am at the right place! But here it goes. So I`ve been tasked by my organization to build up a Kubernetes Cluster in order to reduce some cloud cost. My current configuration would be 3 master nodes on vmware 7.0U1, vsphere 7.0d, and 4 worker node on physical Dell M630 nodes. They have an 80TB attached storage and I was hoping to be able (like vmfs a little bit) to be able to expose the same storage to all 4 worker in order for them to have access to data. (I believe cephfs is doing this is not some openfs or other)

I found TALOS along the way and I REALLY REALLY like the idea and the simplicity it seems to provide, however I must say that after almost 16 hours of brain digging information search and following all tutorial I could find I was not able to sucessfully initialize 1 control-plane.

Here is a bit more information about my current setup:
I tried with alpha 0.10, ,beta 9.5 and stable 8.5 OVA image from the website.
I follow the documentation and everything is working configuration store init.yaml and all everything is doing as it should, but EACH time I either do an INIT or a BOOTSTRAP I end up with a connection refused on the :6443 port. And I can`t figure out why its not completing the installation.

root@batman1:/home/adminrcgt/test2# talosctl --talosconfig talosconfig containers
NODE NAMESPACE ID IMAGE PID STATUS
10.254.99.81 system apid talos/apid 3236 RUNNING
10.254.99.81 system networkd talos/networkd 3084 RUNNING
10.254.99.81 system routerd talos/routerd 3037 RUNNING
10.254.99.81 system timed talos/timed 3141 RUNNING
10.254.99.81 system trustd talos/trustd 3189 RUNNING

I am getting the based container running but it seems I can`t get the Kube-config or the control-plane running.

I am sure I am missing something VERY obvious, but right now I can't figured it out! I think this may be something with the configuration init.yaml or controlplane.yaml, missing the CNI for the network or something like this. I believe I would like to use cilium and rook/ceph for network and storage plugin, but I tougth I could do that setup after, since in no documentation it talk about configuring it at the begenning.

I`ve followed to the letter
https://www.talos.dev/docs/v0.8/virtualized-platforms/vmware/#create-the-machine-configuration-files

I really want this to work, I believe I could start the control plane on ubuntu directly but I really like the Talos idea at this time, something that will help my in the long term!

If you need anything or if you have any recommendation I would be delighted!!!

THanks!

[andrewrynhard]

Hello, @NorthFace21 👋🏻 . Have you #3143 yet? I'd also like to invite you to our slack: http://slack.dev.talos-systems.io. We have a number of users on VMware that might be able to provide some insight.