Support for Talos Linux

[devantler]

What are you trying to do?

It would be nice if a Talos Linux image could be supported. This seems like a really nice fit for Multipass.

What's your proposed solution?

A talos image should be distributed through the official channels, such that it can be found and installed as such:

multipass launch talos

[georgeliao]

Hi @devantler , thanks for the suggestion. For now, Multipass only supports ubuntu distro in the image vault. However, there is a plan for the future to support other distros like talos.

[devantler]

Awesome to hear! Looking forward to that.

[liquidsaul]

Was just looking into this as well! Would be nice to have.

[georgeliao]

Guys, with further investigation, there are some updates on this topic. In the future, Multipas will support other Linux distros. However, the prerequisite is that the Linux distro has to support "cloud-init". Unfortunately, that is not the case with Talos linux, it uses MachineConfig which provides a similar function to "cloud-init". That is the situation for now and Talos might evolve in the future hopefully.

[devantler]

I am unfamiliar with the cloud-init technology and the inner workings of multipass, but I noticed this bit in the Talos docs today, mentioning cloud-init a few times. It seems it requires the machine config generated by the Talos CLI to bootstrap the cloud-init iso image. I initially fell over a release stating that Talos has generic cloud-init support. I might be lacking some knowledge here, but why can multipass not support this in its current state?

• link to docs mentioning cloud-init
• link to release stating generic cloud-init support

[townsend2010]

Since it does seem Talos Linux does have cloud-init support, this may be one we consider if/when we start to support other distributions.

[teaglebuilt]

are we talking about just creating a blueprint?