I'm a fan of the bare metal providers, btw, though I mainly tried out Scaleway for a while.
> PXE boot Talos on every boot
IMO this is a great thing, since once your combination of tftp/dnsmasq/matchbox/http is configured and deployed, you don't need anything else.
In the current, old setup I use, I just flip the PXE-boot switch (e.g. w/ ipmitool) to image the node's drive with whatever install process and then switch back to local boot, but switching boot device and the local hard drive are both extra failure modes (at least in my aging bare metal cluster)
I'm a fan of the bare metal providers, btw, though I mainly tried out Scaleway for a while.
> PXE boot Talos on every boot
IMO this is a great thing, since once your combination of tftp/dnsmasq/matchbox/http is configured and deployed, you don't need anything else.
In the current, old setup I use, I just flip the PXE-boot switch (e.g. w/ ipmitool) to image the node's drive with whatever install process and then switch back to local boot, but switching boot device and the local hard drive are both extra failure modes (at least in my aging bare metal cluster)