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Tracks upstream Talos v1.14.0 for the main module and pkg/machinery, and fixes what the bump broke.

Dependency Before After
github.com/siderolabs/talos v1.13.7 v1.14.0
github.com/siderolabs/talos/pkg/machinery v1.13.7 v1.14.0
k8s.io/{api,apimachinery,client-go,component-base} v0.36.2 v0.37.0

Breaking: two Chart.yaml keys stop working when empty

A project that left templateOptions.talosVersion and templateOptions.kubernetesVersion unset will not render until both are pinned.

Empty talosVersion still means the Talos version talm was built against. From v1.14 that contract keeps the Kubernetes settings in documents of their own, while the charts write them as v1alpha1 fields, and machinery rejects a config carrying both. So an unpinned project was rendering something the node refuses, and nothing said so until the apply failed. The render stops now and names the fields.

Empty kubernetesVersion used to mean the node picks: machinery emitted no image field. v1.14 will not generate without a version, and the fallback that satisfies it writes talm's own Kubernetes version into the config, where the node file does not show it. Below that contract the generated images are stripped and the node still picks. On it, the missing pin is reported with the key to set.

engine.SerializeConfiguration takes the two version strings now, so its signature changed. It is exported, and the contract it had before (serialize whatever the bundle holds) could not survive the version handling above.

Both shipped presets pin both keys now, so generic-preset projects will report preset drift until re-synced. docs/operations/upgrading.md has the migration, including why taking the preset's kubernetesVersion without checking can move a control plane in the wrong direction.

Also fixed

talm init stopped working entirely: config/generate errors on an empty Kubernetes version instead of defaulting it.

A full render kept 1 document out of 28. The CA and the service-account key were among the ones dropped.

talosctl meta --insecure became unreachable upstream: the flag moved onto the container command as a local flag, which reaches neither the subcommands nor the parent. siderolabs/talos#14347 fixes it but has not shipped in a v1.14 release, so talm re-publishes the flag itself, marked for removal.

Pre-apply link checks cover VethConfig and BGPInstanceConfig, and the host snapshot now carries link aliases and altnames. Machinery takes an alias anywhere it takes a link name, so a bond over an aliased NIC was blocked on a config Talos accepts. That one predates this branch.

MPL-2.0

v1.14 dropped helpers.FailIfMultiNodes, helpers.ForEachResource, global.Args.WithClientNoNodes and global.Args.WithClientMaintenance with no exported replacement. talm carries ports in pkg/engine/talos_helpers.go and pkg/commands/talos_client.go. Talos is MPL-2.0, so both files carry the MPL notice; the rest of talm stays Apache-2.0 under MPL-2.0 section 3.3.

Testing

go build ./..., go test ./... and golangci-lint run clean locally. New contract tests load a rendered config back through machinery — nothing in the suite did that before, so a render could stop being applicable while everything stayed green. On-cluster steps are in docs/manual-test-plan.md.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Talos v1.14 compatibility, multi-document rendering, and version pinning.
    • Added strict chart and preset drift checks for release builds.
    • Added certificate fingerprint support, container namespace selection, and encrypted support bundles.
    • Added validation for link aliases, alternate names, VRF, WireGuard, Veth, and BGP references.
    • Added documentation for LVM and software RAID wipe commands.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed nested Talos command flag propagation and configuration serialization.
    • Improved Kubernetes version handling and certificate fingerprint guidance.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded upgrade, compatibility, safety, command-reference, and licensing guidance.
    • Documented removal of unsupported insecure and reboot modes.

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Talos dependencies move to v1.14. Rendering now uses explicit version contracts and multi-document handling. The change also adds chart drift checks, local client wrappers, updated apply-reference validation, dynamic command behavior, and refreshed documentation.

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Talos upgrade and command behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dependency and preset updates
go.mod, charts/generic/Chart.yaml, README.md, docs/configuration/*
Dependencies move to newer Go, Talos, Kubernetes, Helm, and related versions. Generic chart version keys are pinned.
Release and chart drift validation
main.go, main_test.go
Release builds check chart and preset drift. Strict mode can fail with remediation hints. Empty Kubernetes versions remain available to the engine.
Talos client construction
pkg/commands/root.go, pkg/commands/talos_client.go, pkg/commands/talosctl_wrapper.go, pkg/commands/*_test.go
Skip-verify and maintenance clients are constructed locally. Talos v1.14 container flags are re-published where required.
Version-aware configuration generation
pkg/engine/*, pkg/commands/init.go, pkg/commands/talosconfig.go, pkg/commands/template.go
Rendering resolves Talos and Kubernetes contracts, preserves multi-document output, handles unpinned images, and reports superseded fields.
Apply reference validation
pkg/applycheck/*, pkg/commands/preflight_apply_safety.go, pkg/commands/completion.go
Validation covers v1.14 link, VRF, BGP, veth, WireGuard, aliases, and dynamic apply-mode completion.
Command and operational documentation
docs/operations/*, docs/reference/*, docs/manual-test-plan.md
Documentation reflects Talos v1.14 flags, modes, namespaces, version pins, safety gates, support bundles, and wipe commands.

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This pull request updates Sidero Talos dependencies to v1.14.0-alpha.1 and drops the cozystack/talos fork. To maintain support for the --skip-verify flag, the functionality is reimplemented locally in pkg/commands using a custom TLS configuration. Additionally, client initialization wrappers are updated to pass contexts as required by the new upstream machinery, and default Kubernetes versions are provided where required by Talos v1.14 config generation. Feedback on the changes suggests adding a nil check for configContext in WithClientSkipVerify to prevent a potential nil pointer panic if a context is defined as empty in the configuration.

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Comment thread pkg/commands/root.go
Comment on lines +199 to +202
configContext, ok := cfg.Contexts[contextName]
if !ok {
return fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", errContextNotFound, contextName)
}

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If the context exists in the talosconfig but is defined as null or empty, cfg.Contexts[contextName] can return nil with ok being true. Dereferencing configContext later (e.g., accessing configContext.Crt or configContext.Endpoints) will cause a nil pointer panic. Adding a nil check here prevents this potential panic.

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configContext, ok := cfg.Contexts[contextName]
if !ok {
return fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", errContextNotFound, contextName)
}
configContext, ok := cfg.Contexts[contextName]
if !ok || configContext == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", errContextNotFound, contextName)
}

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Already guarded. The nil check landed on main with the fork removal: root.go now bails out on !ok || configContext == nil before anything dereferences it.

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pkg/commands/rotate_ca_handler.go (1)

315-324: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Honor --skip-verify when fetching kubeconfig for CA rotation.

This path now always uses WithClient, so users who need --skip-verify for SAN-mismatched Talos endpoints still fail before CA rotation can discover nodes.

Proposed fix
-	err := WithClient(func(ctx context.Context, c *client.Client) error {
+	action := func(ctx context.Context, c *client.Client) error {
 		var err error

 		kubeconfigData, err = c.Kubeconfig(ctx)
 		if err != nil {
 			return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to get kubeconfig")
@@
 
 		return nil
-	})
+	}
+
+	var err error
+	if SkipVerify {
+		err = WithClientSkipVerify(action)
+	} else {
+		err = WithClient(action)
+	}

Based on PR context, call sites should route through the local skip-verify implementation after moving the flag out of GlobalArgs.

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In `@pkg/commands/rotate_ca_handler.go` around lines 315 - 324, The kubeconfig
fetch in the CA rotation flow is bypassing the local skip-verify path, so
`--skip-verify` is not honored before node discovery. Update the kubeconfig
retrieval logic in `rotate_ca_handler.go` to route through the existing local
skip-verify implementation instead of always calling `WithClient`, and make sure
the CA rotation path uses the flag now moved out of `GlobalArgs` when calling
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Inline comments:
In `@go.mod`:
- Line 140: The dependency on github.com/containerd/containerd/v2 is still
pinned to an unpatched indirect version; update the go.mod requirement to a
fixed release such as v2.3.2 or newer (or the appropriate older-branch patch
version) and then refresh the module metadata so the indirect entry stays
consistent with the resolved dependency set.

In `@pkg/commands/root.go`:
- Around line 209-218: The client option assembly in root.go is missing the
cluster override when rebuilding options for the skip-verify path, so
`--cluster` gets dropped. Update the option list in the client construction
logic around `WithTLSConfig`/`WithDefaultGRPCDialOptions` to also include
`client.WithCluster(GlobalArgs.Cluster)` when a cluster is set, matching the
normal client path used elsewhere in the root command handling.

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In `@pkg/commands/rotate_ca_handler.go`:
- Around line 315-324: The kubeconfig fetch in the CA rotation flow is bypassing
the local skip-verify path, so `--skip-verify` is not honored before node
discovery. Update the kubeconfig retrieval logic in `rotate_ca_handler.go` to
route through the existing local skip-verify implementation instead of always
calling `WithClient`, and make sure the CA rotation path uses the flag now moved
out of `GlobalArgs` when calling `c.Kubeconfig` or its wrapper.
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NOT LGTM — new TLS-skip / version-fallback logic ships without tests, and the bump pins a production bootstrap tool to a Talos alpha; both need resolution before merge.

Business context: bump Talos to v1.14 machinery so talm recognizes the new v1.14-only KubeEtcdEncryptionConfig document, dropping the cozystack/talos fork that previously carried --skip-verify.

What was verified and is not a problem (raising so reviewers don't re-litigate):

  • Fork patches preserved. The fork at the pinned commit was upstream v1.12.1 plus exactly two commits: the rotate-ca --k8s-endpoint fix (independently present in upstream v1.14.0-alpha.1 — rotate-ca.go:153, pkg/rotate/pki/kubernetes/kubernetes.go:46/176) and --skip-verify (faithfully reimplemented in pkg/commands/root.go). No carried patch is lost.
  • Scope is cohesive. The skip-verify reimplementation, context threading, k8s.io bump, and explicit-Kubernetes-version handling are all forced consequences of the v1.14 client-API and config/generate changes, not unrelated additions.

Blockers

B1: Version choice — pinning to a Talos alpha

File: go.mod:82,122

Issue: This pins talm (a production bootstrap tool) to v1.14.0-alpha.1, a month-old prerelease, when stable v1.13.5 exists.

Evidence: The sole capability v1.14 adds over v1.13.x is the KubeEtcdEncryptionConfig type — confirmed present only in v1.14.0-alpha.1 (absent in v1.13.5 / v1.13.3). On every other axis stable is ahead: v1.13.5's DefaultKubernetesVersion is 1.36.2 vs the alpha's 1.36.1, and its config schema is frozen while the alpha's KubeEtcdEncryptionConfig can still change before v1.14.0 ships.

Impact: The platform would track an unreleased Talos with a non-final machine-config schema and an older default Kubernetes version than current stable.

Decision needed: Is KubeEtcdEncryptionConfig required before v1.14.0 stable releases? If not, v1.13.5 is the better target. If yes, please state that justification in the PR body so the alpha pin is a deliberate, documented tradeoff.

B2: New logic ships without tests

File: pkg/commands/root.go (skipVerifyTLSConfig, WithClientSkipVerify), pkg/engine/engine.go (kubeVersion)

Issue: The reimplemented --skip-verify path and the new kubeVersion fallback have no unit tests; no existing test references them.

Evidence: grep for skipVerifyTLSConfig / kubeVersion / WithClientSkipVerify across *_test.go returns nothing, despite 33 test files in pkg/commands. go test ./... and the coverage CI job passing only confirm existing tests still pass — they do not cover the added lines.

Impact: skipVerifyTLSConfig disables TLS verification and parses the client cert/key (three error paths); kubeVersion encodes the "fall back to default when version unset" guarantee the PR body promises to preserve. Both are load-bearing and currently unverified.

Fix: Add table tests for kubeVersion (empty -> DefaultKubernetesVersion, "v1.30.0" -> "1.30.0") and for skipVerifyTLSConfig (cert+key present, both absent, malformed base64, nil/empty context). The context-resolution and errContextNotFound paths in WithClientSkipVerify are also worth a test.

Non-blocking follow-ups

  1. pkg/commands/root.go: cfg.Contexts[contextName] can return (nil, true) if the talosconfig defines a context as null; the later configContext.Crt deref would panic. Carried over from the fork, low severity (needs a malformed config), but a || configContext == nil guard is cheap — and a skipVerifyTLSConfig test should cover the nil case.
  2. docs/manual-test-plan.md was not updated for the --skip-verify reimplementation or the default-Kubernetes-version change; the repo otherwise keeps that plan in sync with behavior changes.
  3. The go.mod comment and PR body state the fork was carried only for --skip-verify; it also carried the rotate-ca --k8s-endpoint fix. Worth a one-line correction so the history is accurate.

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Releasing as alpha does not make much sense, so these changes should only be used for testing. I'll update this PR given that talos v1.14 is released

Do not merge until Talos v1.14 is released.

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@kvaps Andrei Kvapil (kvaps) changed the title chore(deps): bump Talos to v1.14.0-alpha.1 chore(deps): bump Talos to v1.14.0 Sep 10, 2026
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pkg/commands/apply.go (1)

1041-1041: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the modelined anchor only for metadata. The rendered template path passes configFile to engine.MergeFileAsPatch, so values from its YAML body can override the Helm render. A stale node body can therefore produce a different configuration from talm template -f node.yaml | talm apply -f -. Initialize the merged result with rendered and apply only the explicit sidePatches.

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In `@pkg/commands/apply.go` at line 1041, Update the apply flow around
engine.MergeFileAsPatch so the rendered template remains the base configuration;
use configFile only for metadata and apply only the explicit sidePatches,
preventing YAML body values from overriding rendered. Preserve the existing
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pkg/commands/template.go (1)

77-77: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve configured value files after project-root detection.

When talm template -f <project>/nodes/<node>.yaml runs outside the project directory, PreRunE resolves Config.TemplateOptions.ValueFiles before templateWithFiles calls DetectAndSetRootFromFiles. Configured project-relative files can resolve against the previous root. Move this resolution after root detection, while keeping CLI --values paths CWD-relative.

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In `@pkg/commands/template.go` at line 77, Update the template command flow so
DetectAndSetRootFromFiles in templateWithFiles runs before resolving
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In `@pkg/commands/apply.go`:
- Line 800: Update the apply and both template skip-verify paths around
WithClientSkipVerify so they pass only endpoints explicitly supplied by the
user, not the defaultLocalEndpoint seeded by PreRunE. When no explicit override
exists, preserve an empty endpoint override so WithClientSkipVerify uses
configContext.Endpoints; retain explicit endpoint behavior unchanged.

In `@pkg/engine/engine.go`:
- Around line 1889-1890: Update the image-pinning flow around the
kubernetesVersion guard to normalize the value through kubeVersion before
checking for an unset version, then use the normalized value for component image
tags so the default Kubernetes version is pinned consistently.

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Comment thread pkg/commands/apply.go
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Tracks upstream Talos v1.14.0 for both the main module and pkg/machinery, so
talm recognizes the v1.14 machine-config documents, in particular
KubeEtcdEncryptionConfig, which the earlier machinery rejected as not
registered.

v1.14 reshaped what talm consumes: the talosctl client wrappers became a
ClientFactory that refuses to build without nodes, cluster.Name and
cluster.Endpoint moved to K8sClusterConfig, helpers.FailIfMultiNodes and
helpers.ForEachResource left the exported helpers, config/generate now errors
on an empty Kubernetes version instead of defaulting it, and --insecure moved
from a persistent to a local flag on the meta command. talm carries local
equivalents for the wrappers and the two helpers.

Three flags disappear with the release, each with a replacement: apply's
--mode=reboot (use --mode=auto, which the node promotes to a reboot when the
change needs one), and upgrade's and reset's --insecure (boot a maintenance
image and apply a fresh config instead). Shell completion now reads the mode
values back from the flag, so it cannot advertise one the flag rejects.

Co-authored-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Ilin <stitch14@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Assisted-by: LLM
Talos v1.14 added VethConfig, whose two ends (name and peer.name) are links
the config brings into existence. The walker had no handler for the kind, so a
document referencing either end — a Layer2VIPConfig on a veth, a VLAN parented
to one — was validated against the node's existing links and blocked the apply
with "declared link not found" on a config Talos accepts.

Record both ends the way DummyLinkConfig and LinkAliasConfig are recorded.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) dismissed their stale review September 11, 2026 22:46

Dismissing: both blockers are gone. B1 pinned an alpha; the branch now pins Talos v1.14.0 GA. B2 asked for tests on the skip-verify path and kubeVersion; the skip-verify reimplementation landed on main with skip_verify_test.go, and kubeVersion is exercised by the render contract tests. The three follow-ups are covered too: the nil-context guard is on main, the manual test plan is updated, and the fork note is moot since main no longer carries the fork.

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pkg/engine/golden_test.go (1)

31-31: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Require the documented value before golden regeneration.

updateGolden treats every non-empty value as enabled. TALM_UPDATE_GOLDEN=0 or TALM_UPDATE_GOLDEN=false therefore overwrites snapshots and skips all comparisons. This can hide rendering regressions.

Proposed fix
 func updateGolden() bool {
-	return os.Getenv("TALM_UPDATE_GOLDEN") != ""
+	return os.Getenv("TALM_UPDATE_GOLDEN") == "1"
 }
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In `@pkg/engine/golden_test.go` at line 31, Update updateGolden to enable golden
regeneration only when TALM_UPDATE_GOLDEN has the documented enabling value,
treating values such as “0” and “false” as disabled while preserving normal
snapshot comparisons.
docs/reference/reset.md (1)

21-21: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the documented default match Talm's effective reset behavior.

This line reports --wipe-mode as (default all), but the same description says that Talm uses --system-labels-to-wipe=STATE,EPHEMERAL when no wipe flag is passed. The generated help therefore presents a destructive default while the documented Talm behavior preserves META. Update the generated option text or the wrapper behavior so one effective default is shown. Keep explicit --wipe-mode=all documented as destructive.

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In `@docs/reference/reset.md` at line 21, Update the --wipe-mode option
documentation or wrapper default so the displayed default matches Talm’s
effective behavior of preserving META when no wipe flag is provided. Keep
explicit --wipe-mode=all and --wipe-mode=system-disk documented as destructive,
and remove the misleading “default all” designation.
docs/reference/debug.md (1)

13-16: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the talm command name throughout the documentation.

The affected pages document talm commands but retain upstream talosctl invocations. Replace these references so copied commands use the CLI described by each page.

  • docs/reference/debug.md#L13-L16: replace both talosctl debug examples with talm debug.
  • docs/reference/get.md#L3-L8: replace both talosctl get rd references with talm get rd.
  • docs/reference/wipe_pv.md#L9-L9: replace talosctl wipe vg with talm wipe vg.
  • docs/reference/wipe_vg.md#L12-L12: replace talosctl wipe pv with talm wipe pv.
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In `@docs/reference/debug.md` around lines 13 - 16, Replace the documented CLI
invocations with the page-specific talm command: in docs/reference/debug.md
lines 13-16, change both talosctl debug examples to talm debug; in
docs/reference/get.md lines 3-8, change both talosctl get rd references to talm
get rd; in docs/reference/wipe_pv.md line 9, change talosctl wipe vg to talm
wipe vg; and in docs/reference/wipe_vg.md line 12, change talosctl wipe pv to
talm wipe pv.
docs/reference/image_cache-serve.md (1)

19-19: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe --image-cache-path as the served directory.

cache-serve serves an existing cache, but Line 19 says the path is a directory “to save” the cache. This conflicts with the command synopsis and describes creation behavior. Change the text to describe the directory that contains the cache, including the required layout if applicable.

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In `@docs/reference/image_cache-serve.md` at line 19, Update the
--image-cache-path option description in the cache-serve documentation to state
that it points to the directory containing the existing image cache served by
cache-serve, not a directory used to save or create the cache; include the
required cache layout if the surrounding documentation defines one.
docs/reference/image_cache-create.md (1)

9-9: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add language identifiers to all generated Markdown fences.

markdownlint-cli2 reports MD040 throughout these reference pages. Add console or text after each opening fence.

  • docs/reference/image_cache-create.md#L9-L9: Update all four fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/image_cache-serve.md#L9-L9: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/image_integration.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/image_k8s-bundle.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/image_list.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/image_pull.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/image_remove.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/image_talos-bundle.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/logs.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/memory.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/meta.md#L7-L7: Update both fenced blocks.
  • docs/reference/meta_delete.md#L5-L5: Update all three fenced blocks.
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In `@docs/reference/image_cache-create.md` at line 9, Update every opening
Markdown fence in docs/reference/image_cache-create.md (lines 9-9; four blocks),
docs/reference/image_cache-serve.md (lines 9-9; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_integration.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_k8s-bundle.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_list.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_pull.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_remove.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_talos-bundle.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/logs.md (lines 5-5; three blocks), docs/reference/memory.md
(lines 5-5; three blocks), docs/reference/meta.md (lines 7-7; two blocks), and
docs/reference/meta_delete.md (lines 5-5; three blocks) by adding an appropriate
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docs/reference/debug.md (1)

5-5: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add language identifiers to all fenced blocks.

markdownlint reports MD040 throughout these generated reference pages. Add an appropriate language identifier to each fence, or update the documentation generator so regenerated pages retain the identifiers.

  • docs/reference/debug.md#L5-L5, docs/reference/debug.md#L11-L11, docs/reference/debug.md#L21-L21, docs/reference/debug.md#L30-L30: label all four fences.
  • docs/reference/edit.md#L14-L14, docs/reference/edit.md#L20-L20, docs/reference/edit.md#L31-L31: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/get.md#L10-L10, docs/reference/get.md#L16-L16, docs/reference/get.md#L28-L28: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/image.md#L7-L7, docs/reference/image.md#L15-L15: label both fences.
  • docs/reference/image_cache-cert-gen.md#L9-L9, docs/reference/image_cache-cert-gen.md#L15-L15, docs/reference/image_cache-cert-gen.md#L27-L27: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/version.md#L5-L5, docs/reference/version.md#L11-L11, docs/reference/version.md#L22-L22: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/wipe.md#L7-L7, docs/reference/wipe.md#L14-L14: label both fences.
  • docs/reference/wipe_disk.md#L11-L11, docs/reference/wipe_disk.md#L17-L17, docs/reference/wipe_disk.md#L28-L28: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/wipe_lv.md#L11-L11, docs/reference/wipe_lv.md#L17-L17, docs/reference/wipe_lv.md#L26-L26: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/wipe_md.md#L13-L13, docs/reference/wipe_md.md#L19-L19, docs/reference/wipe_md.md#L28-L28: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/wipe_pv.md#L13-L13, docs/reference/wipe_pv.md#L19-L19, docs/reference/wipe_pv.md#L28-L28: label all three fences.
  • docs/reference/wipe_vg.md#L14-L14, docs/reference/wipe_vg.md#L20-L20, docs/reference/wipe_vg.md#L29-L29: label all three fences.
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persist: docs/reference/debug.md lines 5, 11, 21, 30; docs/reference/edit.md
lines 14, 20, 31; docs/reference/get.md lines 10, 16, 28;
docs/reference/image.md lines 7, 15; docs/reference/image_cache-cert-gen.md
lines 9, 15, 27; docs/reference/version.md lines 5, 11, 22;
docs/reference/wipe.md lines 7, 14; docs/reference/wipe_disk.md lines 11, 17,
28; docs/reference/wipe_lv.md lines 11, 17, 26; docs/reference/wipe_md.md lines
13, 19, 28; docs/reference/wipe_pv.md lines 13, 19, 28; and
docs/reference/wipe_vg.md lines 14, 20, 29.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/configuration/talos-versions.md`:
- Around line 77-78: Update the admonition body around the Talos version
guidance so the prose is not interpreted as an indented code block by Markdown
linting. Remove the blank line that precedes the four-space-indented text,
preserving the existing admonition content and normal prose rendering.

In `@docs/manual-test-plan.md`:
- Line 2106: Update the destructive-section sanity-check instruction to use
lowercase `apply -i` for the insecure apply path, replacing the uppercase `apply
-I` reference while preserving the surrounding mode and reboot conditions.

In `@docs/operations/upgrading.md`:
- Line 57: Update the documented talm re-sync procedure to preserve
strictCharts: true in Chart.yaml, either by stating that it must be restored
after talm init --update or by including verification that it remains enabled.

In `@docs/reference/image_cache-create.md`:
- Around line 16-19: Update both command examples in the cache-create
documentation to use the documented talm image cache-create command, including
the piped stdin example, instead of talosctl images cache-create.

In `@docs/reference/image_integration.md`:
- Line 16: Update the --talos-tag option description in the image integration
reference to clearly state that it selects the Talos version, distinguishing it
from --installer-tag while preserving the existing default value.

In `@docs/reference/upgrade.md`:
- Line 48: Update the --image option documentation to align with the -f
resolution contract: describe values.yaml::image as the effective default for
file-based upgrades, or clarify that the shown factory image applies only when
no anchored project is used. Keep the explicit --image precedence documented.

In `@pkg/engine/contract_validate_render_test.go`:
- Line 443: Update the test helper that invokes fn to register restoration of
os.Stderr with t.Cleanup before calling fn, ensuring the original descriptor is
restored even when fn calls t.Fatalf; keep the existing pipe setup and callback
behavior unchanged.

In `@pkg/engine/engine.go`:
- Line 2314: Update the default-image generation and stripDefaultedImages flow
around defaultedImage to track image fields present in the source patches, and
remove only fields added by the generator. Preserve explicitly configured
component images even when their value equals the current fallback, including
across Talos upgrades.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@docs/reference/debug.md`:
- Around line 13-16: Replace the documented CLI invocations with the
page-specific talm command: in docs/reference/debug.md lines 13-16, change both
talosctl debug examples to talm debug; in docs/reference/get.md lines 3-8,
change both talosctl get rd references to talm get rd; in
docs/reference/wipe_pv.md line 9, change talosctl wipe vg to talm wipe vg; and
in docs/reference/wipe_vg.md line 12, change talosctl wipe pv to talm wipe pv.

In `@docs/reference/image_cache-create.md`:
- Line 9: Update every opening Markdown fence in
docs/reference/image_cache-create.md (lines 9-9; four blocks),
docs/reference/image_cache-serve.md (lines 9-9; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_integration.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_k8s-bundle.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_list.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_pull.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_remove.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/image_talos-bundle.md (lines 5-5; three blocks),
docs/reference/logs.md (lines 5-5; three blocks), docs/reference/memory.md
(lines 5-5; three blocks), docs/reference/meta.md (lines 7-7; two blocks), and
docs/reference/meta_delete.md (lines 5-5; three blocks) by adding an appropriate
console or text language identifier after each fence delimiter.

In `@docs/reference/image_cache-serve.md`:
- Line 19: Update the --image-cache-path option description in the cache-serve
documentation to state that it points to the directory containing the existing
image cache served by cache-serve, not a directory used to save or create the
cache; include the required cache layout if the surrounding documentation
defines one.

In `@docs/reference/reset.md`:
- Line 21: Update the --wipe-mode option documentation or wrapper default so the
displayed default matches Talm’s effective behavior of preserving META when no
wipe flag is provided. Keep explicit --wipe-mode=all and --wipe-mode=system-disk
documented as destructive, and remove the misleading “default all” designation.

In `@pkg/engine/golden_test.go`:
- Line 31: Update updateGolden to enable golden regeneration only when
TALM_UPDATE_GOLDEN has the documented enabling value, treating values such as
“0” and “false” as disabled while preserving normal snapshot comparisons.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@docs/reference/debug.md`:
- Line 5: Label every fenced code block with an appropriate language identifier
to resolve markdownlint MD040. Update the generated reference pages or their
documentation generator so identifiers persist: docs/reference/debug.md lines 5,
11, 21, 30; docs/reference/edit.md lines 14, 20, 31; docs/reference/get.md lines
10, 16, 28; docs/reference/image.md lines 7, 15;
docs/reference/image_cache-cert-gen.md lines 9, 15, 27;
docs/reference/version.md lines 5, 11, 22; docs/reference/wipe.md lines 7, 14;
docs/reference/wipe_disk.md lines 11, 17, 28; docs/reference/wipe_lv.md lines
11, 17, 26; docs/reference/wipe_md.md lines 13, 19, 28;
docs/reference/wipe_pv.md lines 13, 19, 28; and docs/reference/wipe_vg.md lines
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talosctl images cache-create --images=ghcr.io/siderolabs/kubelet:v1.37.0 --image-cache-path=/tmp/talos-image-cache

Alternatively, stdin can be piped to the command:
talosctl images default | talosctl images cache-create --image-cache-path=/tmp/talos-image-cache --images=-

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the documented talm command in the examples.

The page documents talm image cache-create, but Lines 16 and 19 invoke talosctl images cache-create. Users who copy these examples run a different CLI. Change both examples to talm image cache-create, or label them as upstream talosctl examples.

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In `@docs/reference/image_cache-create.md` around lines 16 - 19, Update both
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image cache-create command, including the piped stdin example, instead of
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--installer-tag string tag of the installer image to use
--registry-and-user string registry and user to use for the images
--talos-tag string tag of the installer image to use (default "v1.13.7")
--talos-tag string tag of the installer image to use (default "v1.14.0")

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the --talos-tag description.

--installer-tag and --talos-tag both say “tag of the installer image to use.” This leaves the version selector ambiguous, especially with the default v1.14.0. Update the description to match the actual --talos-tag behavior.

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In `@docs/reference/image_integration.md` at line 16, Update the --talos-tag
option description in the image integration reference to clearly state that it
selects the Talos version, distinguishing it from --installer-tag while
preserving the existing default value.

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-f, --file strings specify config files or patches in a YAML file (can specify multiple)
-h, --help help for upgrade
-i, --image string the container image to use for performing the install (default "ghcr.io/siderolabs/installer:v1.13.7")
-i, --image string the container image to use for performing the install (default "factory.talos.dev/metal-installer/376567988ad370138ad8b2698212367b8edcb69b5fd68c80be1f2ec7d603b4ba:v1.14.0")

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the --image default match the -f resolution contract.

The synopsis says that an explicit --image wins and that, when -f is used without it, values.yaml::image is the target. The option text still advertises a non-empty factory image as the default. This makes the standard file-based upgrade flow ambiguous and can cause an operator to select the wrong image. Show the effective file-based default, or state that the displayed default applies only when no anchored project is used.

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In `@docs/reference/upgrade.md` at line 48, Update the --image option
documentation to align with the -f resolution contract: describe
values.yaml::image as the effective default for file-based upgrades, or clarify
that the shown factory image applies only when no anchored project is used. Keep
the explicit --image precedence documented.

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Talos v1.14 added BGPInstanceConfig, which names existing links in three
places: the .advertise[] entries whose addresses are originated into BGP, the
neighbors running unnumbered sessions over a link, and the VRF the session runs
in. A typo in any of them reached the node unvalidated. Machinery does not
resolve the VRF either — its Validate only reads the field to reject BFD in a
VRF — so the miss surfaced on the node at runtime, where it takes the whole BGP
projection down.

Registering those references needs the documents that create links to be known,
which is what exposed two older gaps: WireguardConfig and VRFConfig created a
link but were never recorded as doing so, and a VLAN or VIP layered on one was
rejected as a missing link on a config Talos accepts. Both are recorded now,
and VRFConfig's own .links[] are resolved the way a bond's are.

WireguardConfig is consequently dispatched by both walkers, which stays safe
because the link side only records a created link and emits nothing that gets
validated. The test that pinned the two dispatch maps as disjoint now declares
that overlap by name instead.

Machinery accepts a link alias wherever it accepts a link name: all three BGP
fields say so, VRFConfig.links[] says so, and BondConfig.links[] said so before
any of them. The host snapshot the apply validates against carried only the
LinkStatus IDs, so validating the new references would have blocked a config
Talos accepts. The snapshot now collects each link's alias and altnames too,
which fixes the bond case at the same time.

The instance's own name is not a link and stays unvalidated.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Assisted-by: LLM
Talos v1.14 registers the meta command's --insecure on its local flag set
rather than its persistent one. A local flag on a command that only hosts
subcommands reaches nothing: cobra merges a parent's persistent flags into a
child at parse time but not its local ones, and the parent itself takes no
arguments. Both `meta write --insecure` and `meta --insecure write` stopped
parsing, and with them the only way to write a META key over the maintenance
service, which is what an operator does before a node has a machine config.

Re-publish a wrapped container command's local flags as persistent ones, so
they reach the subcommand that consumes them. The flag object is reused rather
than redeclared, so it still writes to the variable upstream's RunE reads, and
a flag that is already persistent is left alone, which makes this inert once
the fix lands upstream.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
The render decoded the serialized config into a single YAML node, which keeps
only the first document of the stream. A Talos config is multi-document, and
from the contract where Kubernetes settings moved out of v1alpha1 the generated
bundle emits 28 of them: the certificate authorities, the service-account key,
the kubelet, the control-plane settings, the volume and security profiles. All
but the first were dropped, and the result still validates, so a full render
produced a config missing the material a node needs to join.

Decode the whole stream and re-emit every document in order. The v1alpha1
document keeps being the one that carries comments from the patches and the
component-image strip; the typed documents pass through untouched.

The non-full render returns a patch rather than a config, so it is not supposed
to carry every document. It was still wrong on the same contract: the block that
blanks cluster.clusterName and controlPlane.endpoint to force them into the diff
was writing keys the serialized config no longer declares, and every node file
came out carrying two delete directives against nothing. They were stripped
again at apply, so nothing broke, but the node file should not have said it.
Blank those fields only while they are still v1alpha1 ones.

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return errors.WithHint(
errors.Wrap(err, "serializing configuration"),
"the merged config bundle could not be encoded back to YAML; this is internal — file an issue if reproducible",
"if the message above names a templateOptions key or a v1alpha1 conflict, it is the project's Chart.yaml to fix; anything else is internal — file an issue if reproducible",

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Correct the v1alpha1 remediation guidance.

Direct-patch mode serializes the bundle built from @configFile. If that input causes a v1alpha1 conflict, this hint directs the operator to Chart.yaml, which might not contain the conflicting field. Keep the Chart.yaml guidance for templateOptions errors, but direct v1alpha1 conflicts to the config file or patch that introduced them.

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-			"if the message above names a templateOptions key or a v1alpha1 conflict, it is the project's Chart.yaml to fix; anything else is internal — file an issue if reproducible",
+			"if the message above names a templateOptions key, fix the project's Chart.yaml; if it names a v1alpha1 conflict, fix the config file or patch that introduced it; anything else is internal — file an issue if reproducible",
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"if the message above names a templateOptions key or a v1alpha1 conflict, it is the project's Chart.yaml to fix; anything else is internal — file an issue if reproducible",
"if the message above names a templateOptions key, fix the project's Chart.yaml; if it names a v1alpha1 conflict, fix the config file or patch that introduced it; anything else is internal — file an issue if reproducible",
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In `@pkg/commands/apply.go` at line 575, Update the remediation guidance string in
the apply command so templateOptions errors still direct operators to
Chart.yaml, while v1alpha1 conflicts direct them to the config file or patch
that introduced the conflict; preserve the existing internal-error guidance.

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Re-approving after the two follow-up fixes: the stderr capture helper now restores os.Stderr when the callback aborts, and the test plan names the insecure-apply flag correctly. CI is green on both platforms.

Two keys used to have a working empty value and no longer do, and both failed
quietly rather than loudly.

An unset talosVersion means the Talos version talm was built against, which is
still true. What changed under it is Talos: from v1.14 the Kubernetes settings
the charts write as v1alpha1 fields (machine.kubelet, machine.nodeLabels) live
in documents of their own, and machinery rejects a config carrying both shapes.
An unpinned project therefore rendered a config the node refuses, with nothing
said until the apply failed. The render now stops and names the fields and the
way out.

An unset kubernetesVersion used to mean "the node decides": machinery emitted
no image field at all. v1.14 refuses to generate without a version, so the
fallback that satisfies it would write this binary's Kubernetes version into
the config instead — a version jump nobody asked for, invisible in the node
file because the render's diff drops fields equal to the bundle default. On
contracts where the node can still choose, the generated images are stripped
again; on contracts where the typed documents require an image, the missing
pin is reported.

The generic preset gains the pins it now needs — cozystack already had them —
and both errors carry a hint naming the key. A project created before this
renders again once its Chart.yaml pins templateOptions.talosVersion and
templateOptions.kubernetesVersion.

Add the contract test that would have caught the first one: nothing in the
suite loaded a rendered config back through machinery, so a render could stop
being applicable while the whole suite stayed green.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Assisted-by: LLM
Talos is MPL-2.0 and talm is Apache-2.0. The bump carried two ports over
that line: the resource walk and multi-node guard talosctl stopped
exporting, and the client constructors v1.14 removed. Both are derived
work, so the files holding them now carry the MPL notice. MPL-2.0
section 3.3 allows the combined work to ship under Apache-2.0 as long as
those files keep their own terms.

The client constructors sat in root.go next to talm's own code. They
move to a file of their own so the notice covers the derived code and
nothing else. WithClientNoNodes stays in root.go as the dispatcher that
routes --skip-verify.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
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The test raises SIGTERM at its own process to prove signalContext cancels on
it, and syscall.Kill does not exist on Windows. One undefined symbol in a test
file fails the whole package's type check, so nothing in pkg/commands built
there: both the Windows test job and the Windows lint job went down on it while
Linux stayed green.

Move it behind a !windows build tag. signalContext itself is unaffected, since
syscall.SIGTERM is defined on Windows as well; only delivering a signal this
way is not.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Assisted-by: LLM
The destructive-sections recap said `apply -I`. That spelling belongs to
`template --in-place`; `apply` takes `-i` for the maintenance connection, as
the rest of the plan already writes it. An operator following the recap would
get an unknown-flag error and skip the check.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Assisted-by: LLM
The upgrade flag's default is built from the image factory now, with the
empty schematic pinned into the reference, where it used to be a plain
ghcr.io tag. A mirror stocked only with ghcr.io will not serve it, and the
pinned schematic fixes the extension set the default carries.

The page already lists the other operator-visible v1.14 changes; this one
was missing, and it is the one an airgapped operator runs into.

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
Assisted-by: LLM

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Re-approving after the conflict-hint fix and the stale API comments. The v1alpha1 conflict hint now branches on the parsed contract: above v1.13 it still offers the lower pin, at or below it says to drop the duplicated v1alpha1 field, which is the only remedy that applies there. CI green on both platforms.

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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) merged commit 7fb8fb8 into main Sep 18, 2026
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