Get your talosconfig

You authenticate with Talos using a Talosconfig file. Follow the next steps to get the file.

UI

Prerequisites:

• Successfully authenticated in the UI of a STEC instance.

Steps:

1. Navigate to the Cluster section. You’ll get to the Clusters overview. Click on the name of the cluster you want to get the Talosconfig file for.

   

2. Click on the Talosconfig button to start the download of a valid Talosconfig file for the selected cluster.

   

CLI

Prerequisites:

• Successfully authenticated with a STEC instance.
• Tools: a generic Linux bash terminal, kubectl, yq.

Steps:

1. The talosconfig for every cluster lives in the STEC instance as a Kubernetes secret. You simply have to get the correct secret, decode and save it to a file.

   > export KUBECONFIG=~/.kubeconfig/your-stec.kubeconfig.yaml
   > CLUSTER_NAME="cluster-01"
   
   > kubectl get secrets/${CLUSTER_NAME}-talosconfig --namespace default -o yaml | yq '.data.talosconfig' | base64 --decode > ${CLUSTER_NAME}.talosconfig.yaml