Radxa ROCK 4C Plus
Prerequisites
You will need
talosctl
- an SD card or an eMMC or USB drive or an nVME drive
Download the latest talosctl
.
curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/talosctl https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases/download/v1.9.0-alpha.0/talosctl-$(uname -s | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")-amd64
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/talosctl
Download the Image
The default schematic id for “vanilla” Rock 4c Plus is ed7091ab924ef1406dadc4623c90f245868f03d262764ddc2c22c8a19eb37c1c
.
Refer to the Image Factory documentation for more information.
Download the image and decompress it:
curl -LO https://factory.talos.dev/image/ed7091ab924ef1406dadc4623c90f245868f03d262764ddc2c22c8a19eb37c1c/v1.9.0-alpha.0/metal-arm64.raw.xz
xz -d metal-arm64.raw.xz
Writing the Image
The path to your SD card/eMMC/USB/nVME can be found using fdisk
on Linux or diskutil
on macOS.
In this example, we will assume /dev/mmcblk0
.
Now dd
the image to your SD card:
sudo dd if=metal-arm64.raw of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fsync bs=4M
The user has two options to proceed:
- booting from a SD card or eMMC
Booting from SD card or eMMC
Insert the SD card into the board, turn it on and proceed to bootstrapping the node.
Bootstrapping the Node
Wait for the console to show you the instructions for bootstrapping the node. Following the instructions in the console output to connect to the interactive installer:
talosctl apply-config --insecure --mode=interactive --nodes <node IP or DNS name>
Once the interactive installation is applied, the cluster will form and you can then use kubectl
.
Retrieve the kubeconfig
Retrieve the admin kubeconfig
by running:
talosctl kubeconfig
Upgrading
For example, to upgrade to the latest version of Talos, you can run:
talosctl -n <node IP or DNS name> upgrade --image=factory.talos.dev/installer/ed7091ab924ef1406dadc4623c90f245868f03d262764ddc2c22c8a19eb37c1c:v1.9.0-alpha.0