I work at the moment on a custom script to create an overlay structure of roles such as common, controlplane and worker to merge in patches. And as a final patch, also node specific merges for e.g. hostnames and IPs. I use yaml merges with the talosctl command to then end up with node specific configs which I can then apply.

I do wonder though, is there also a tool to do this? Because I'm now just reinventing the wheel I think. I suppose Kustomize could work too? But some initial testing didn't go well due to kind Talos metadata where Kustomize is unfamiliar with.

How do you make these changes? Especially node specific ones.

I'm trying to install Talos with the latest 'bare metal'-iso on a virtualization platform (VMware) with some virtual machines but I can't get past the few simple installation steps. I do the gen config and get the 3 yaml files I then apply the control plane yaml on my first host without any output at all as response? After that I can't reach the node again with my taloctl commands?

I use a static IP configured on the node. I can ping easily but I get stuck on second step?

I see there is a specificVMware solution but I just want it to make things as simple as possible and expect a bare metal solution when I have figured out how to use talos

Please help me out - I'm about to give up on talos