Prerequisite: CLI tools

You will need three CLI tools installed on your workstation in order to interact with Sidero:

• kubectl
• clusterctl
• talosctl

Install kubectl

Since kubectl is the standard Kubernetes control tool, many distributions already exist for it. Feel free to check your own package manager to see if it is available natively.

Otherwise, you may install it directly from the main distribution point. The main article for this can be found here.

sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/kubectl \
  "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(\
  curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt\
  )/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Install clusterctl

The clusterctl tool is the standard control tool for ClusterAPI (CAPI). It is less common, so it is also less likely to be in package managers.

The main article for installing clusterctl can be found here.

sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/clusterctl \
  "https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v1.5.0/clusterctl-$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64"
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/clusterctl

Note: This version of Sidero is only compatible with CAPI v1beta1, so please install the latest version of clusterctl v1.x.

Install talosctl

The talosctl tool is used to interact with the Talos (our Kubernetes-focused operating system) API. The latest version can be found on our Releases page.

sudo curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/talosctl \
 "https://github.com/talos-systems/talos/releases/latest/download/talosctl-$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')-amd64"
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/talosctl