Talos

Talos Linux is a minimal, immutable OS designed for Kubernetes. These functions manage Talos clusters.

Context Switching

tx — Switch Context

tx                # List available contexts
tx my-cluster     # Switch to specific context

txf — Interactive Switcher

txf    # fzf-powered context selection

Monitoring

tdash — Dashboard

tdash              # Current node
tdash 10.0.1.5     # Specific node

Opens the Talos dashboard showing node health, services, and resources.

tuptime — Uptime

tuptime                         # All nodes
tuptime "10.0.1.5 10.0.1.6"    # Specific nodes

Shows uptime in human-readable format (e.g., "2 days 5 hours 30 minutes").

Debugging

tdmesg — Kernel Messages

tdmesg 10.0.1.5               # Full dmesg output
tdmesg 10.0.1.5 "error"       # Grep for errors
tdmesg 10.0.1.5 "oom"         # Find OOM kills

tlogs — Service Logs

tlogs 10.0.1.5                 # kubelet logs (default)
tlogs 10.0.1.5 etcd            # etcd logs
tlogs 10.0.1.5 containerd      # containerd logs

Operations

treboot — Reboot Node

treboot 10.0.1.5

Prompts for confirmation before rebooting.

Alias

Alias	Command
t	talosctl

Shell Completions

Talosctl completions are cached via _cached_eval:

_cached_eval talosctl talosctl completion zsh