Radxa ROCK PI 4
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” RockPi 4 is 25d2690bb48685de5939edd6dee83a0e09591311e64ad03c550de00f8a521f51
.
Refer to the Image Factory documentation for more information.
Download the image and decompress it:
curl -LO https://factory.talos.dev/image/25d2690bb48685de5939edd6dee83a0e09591311e64ad03c550de00f8a521f51/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 a USB or nVME (requires the RockPi board to have the SPI flash)
Booting from SD card or eMMC
Insert the SD card into the board, turn it on and proceed to bootstrapping the node.
Booting from USB or nVME
This requires the user to flash the RockPi SPI flash with u-boot.
Follow the Radxa docs on Install on M.2 NVME SSD
After these above steps, Talos will boot from the nVME/USB and enter maintenance mode. 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/25d2690bb48685de5939edd6dee83a0e09591311e64ad03c550de00f8a521f51:v1.9.0-alpha.0