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Maxwell MorrisandClaude Sonnet 5 110bd97cca Move to a three-node cluster with a Talos VIP; add Longhorn
Every node is now both control plane and worker, giving real tolerance
for losing any single machine (etcd quorum needs 3, not 1). A Talos VIP
gives the cluster one stable address regardless of which node answers.

Also pre-installs Longhorn for replicated storage, backed by a Talos
UserVolume on each node's second disk (>=900GB, non-system) rather than
the default path — mirroring the pattern from the homescale repo.

Docs renumbered to make room for 06-longhorn.md; checklist, glossary,
network map, and CLAUDE.md's guided-bootstrap instructions updated to
match, including asking the user for node IPs, VIP, and disk info before
generating any Talos config.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 18:25:38 +01:00

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# Prepares each node for Longhorn (apps/longhorn.yaml) — the storage layer
# this repo ships pre-installed. Applied identically to all three
# control-plane nodes, alongside patch-controlplane.yaml.
#
# This file has TWO documents (separated by `---`), because it's making two
# different kinds of change: a patch to the normal machine config, and a
# standalone Talos resource that doesn't live inside `machine:`/`cluster:`
# at all.
#
# --- Document 1: mount the volume into the kubelet's view ---
# Talos runs the kubelet in its own isolated mount namespace. Without this,
# a volume mounted at /var/mnt/longhorn on the node itself would be
# invisible to any Pod using a hostPath-style mount there — which is
# exactly how Longhorn's own manager and engine Pods access node storage.
# This bind-mounts that same path into the kubelet's namespace so Pods can
# actually see it. `rshared` matters specifically: it lets mounts Longhorn
# creates later *underneath* this path (one per volume) propagate back out
# to the host, instead of being invisible outside the container that made
# them.
#
# --- Document 2: UserVolumeConfig ---
# A Talos UserVolumeConfig tells Talos itself to find, format, and mount a
# disk — no manual partitioning on your part. `diskSelector.match:
# '!system_disk'` means "any disk that isn't the one Talos is installed
# on" (never touches your OS disk), and `minSize: 900GiB` means "only
# consider disks at least that large" — so if a node has more than one
# extra disk, Talos won't accidentally pick a small one. Adjust `minSize`
# if your nodes' data disks are smaller than 900GiB; just make sure it's
# still large enough to exclude anything that *isn't* meant for Longhorn.
# `grow: false` keeps the volume at its initial size even if the
# underlying disk is later resized — deliberate here, so growing storage
# is always a conscious decision (see docs/09-growing-up.md).
#
# The `name: longhorn` below is what determines the mount path Talos uses
# — user volumes are always mounted at /var/mnt/<name>, which is why
# Document 1 above and apps/longhorn/values.yaml both hardcode
# /var/mnt/longhorn. Renaming this would mean updating both.
#
# >> Ask Claude: "how do I find out which of my disks Talos will actually
# pick for this?" before you boot for real — worth confirming on your
# specific hardware rather than assuming.
machine:
kubelet:
extraMounts:
- destination: /var/mnt/longhorn
type: bind
source: /var/mnt/longhorn
options:
- bind
- rshared
- rw
---
apiVersion: v1alpha1
kind: UserVolumeConfig
name: longhorn
provisioning:
diskSelector:
match: "!system_disk"
minSize: 900GiB
grow: false