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What this PR does

A substrate: proxmox pool clones its workers from a VM template the chart never sees: capmox selects it by proxmox.templateTags, and the pool's talos.* values reach only the installer written into the worker machineconfig. Nothing in the repository says which image that template has to carry, and the image an operator reaches for is the wrong one:

  • The release asset nocloud-amd64.raw.xz is built from packages/core/talos/images/talos/profiles/nocloud.yaml, the bare-metal node image. Its zfs extension starts ext-zfs-service, which waits for /dev/zfs. A VM never has it, so startAllServices never finishes, and Talos fails the boot sequence and reboots the guest each time the boot timeout runs out. On our v1.13.6 stand that was every ~70 minutes, visible in the tenant only as SandboxChanged on every Pod (218 cilium restarts in 12 days); from the Proxmox side the VM never restarts. The same profile also follows the host nodes' Talos (v1.14.2 since e002f8d), not the pool's talos.version (v1.13.6), so the boot image and the installer the machineconfig names drift apart.
  • The chart's default schematic ce4c9805… is not vanilla: it carries siderolabs/qemu-guest-agent, whose service depends on /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0. Proxmox adds that port only to a VM with the agent enabled, so a template built from the right image with the agent off waits the same way.

hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh builds the template from the chart's own talos.version, talos.schematicID and talos.imageFactoryURL, in the nocloud flavour, with the agent enabled, and prints the talos.* and proxmox.templateTags a pool selects it with. A pool that overrides talos.* passes the same values through COZY_TALOS_*. Before downloading anything it checks that the VMID is free cluster-wide and that no other template carries the same tag set: capmox compares the selector with each template's tags as a set and needs exactly one match across the cluster, so a duplicate stops every pool that selects it with found 2 VM templates. print writes the program that create runs as root on the hypervisor, so it can be read first.

The layout (ovmf, x86-64-v2-AES, virtio-scsi-pci, serial console) is the one the Proxmox substrate has been running on, minus the NIC: capmox writes net0 from proxmox.network on every clone. The disk defaults to 20G because capmox clones it at the template's size; diskSize does not reach a Proxmox worker.

Out of scope on purpose: building a worker image in packages/core/talos for air-gapped installs. The template follows talos.imageFactoryURL, so a self-hosted Image Factory already covers that case.

Refs #3481.

Also in this diff

  • nodegroup.yaml: the comment on the template selector says which image the template carries, and the comment on checks no longer says Talos never ships qemu-guest-agent.
  • The proxmox.templateTags description points at the script and warns off the release asset; README, values.schema.json, the CRD and types.go are regenerated.

Testing

  • hack/cozytest.sh hack/proxmox-talos-template_test.bats: 12/12, against stubs of ssh, pvesh, qm, curl and xz. It goes red on each of agent enabled=0, a disabled duplicate-tag check, and openstack-amd64 in place of nocloud-amd64.
  • make -C packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes test: 206/206, snapshots unchanged.
  • make generate at the root and in the package: no further diff.
  • Not yet run against a live Proxmox. It will build the replacement for our stand's template, which was made from the release asset. The qemu-guest-agent half is derived from the extension's depends and the zfs case observed there, not observed on its own.

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Not applicable, no UI change.

Downstream repositories

  • No downstream repository is affected by this change

kubernetes-nodes has no generated page on the website (it is in none of the website Makefile app lists, and no page mentions the Proxmox substrate), the only schema change is a field description, and hack/ gains a file without moving or renaming one.

Release note

feat(kubernetes-nodes): add `hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh`, which builds the Proxmox VM template a `substrate: proxmox` pool clones from the pool's own `talos.version` and `talos.schematicID` in the nocloud flavour, with the guest agent the default schematic needs. Do not build that template from the release's `nocloud-amd64.raw.xz`: it is the bare-metal node image, and its zfs extension keeps a VM worker from finishing its boot, so Talos reboots it at every boot timeout.

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  • New Features
    • Added a utility to generate or create Proxmox Talos VM templates using Kubernetes-nodes chart settings. It validates template options, supports local or SSH-based creation, and displays pool configuration after successful creation.
    • Kubernetes node pool configuration now accepts kernel module names and optional parameters.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that Proxmox templates must match the pool’s Talos version and schematic, use the nocloud flavor, and have the guest agent enabled. The bare-metal image is unsuitable and may prevent VMs from completing boot.
    • Added guidance on NVIDIA module selection and pool rollouts.

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Walkthrough

The change documents Talos VM template requirements for Proxmox. It adds a script that validates settings, builds a template locally or over SSH, and prints pool configuration. The Kubernetes-nodes values schema also adds a kernelModules field.

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Proxmox Talos Template

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document Talos template requirements
api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetesnodes/types.go, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/README.md, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/values.schema.json, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/values.yaml, packages/system/kubernetes-nodes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes-nodes.yaml
The template guidance specifies the pool’s Talos version and schematic, the nocloud image, the guest-agent requirement, and the warning against using the bare-metal image. The Kubernetes-nodes values schema adds kernelModules, with a required module name and optional parameters.
Resolve and validate template settings
hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh, hack/proxmox-talos-template_test.bats
The script reads chart settings or accepts overrides, validates inputs, normalizes tags, and constructs the image URL and template name. Tests cover defaults, overrides, and rejected inputs.
Create and report the VM template
hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh, hack/proxmox-talos-template_test.bats
The generated program checks Proxmox tools, VM ID, and template tags, then downloads the image, creates the VM, and converts it to a template. Tests cover tag matching, creation, conversion failure, and SSH execution.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor Operator
  participant Script as proxmox-talos-template.sh
  participant Host as Proxmox host
  participant PVE as qm and pvesh
  participant Factory as Talos Image Factory
  Operator->>Script: Run create with template settings
  Script->>Host: Send generated program over SSH or run locally
  Host->>PVE: Check VM ID and existing template tags
  Host->>Factory: Download schematic-specific nocloud image
  Host->>PVE: Create VM, enable agent, resize disk, convert to template
  Script-->>Operator: Print template details and pool configuration
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6852f

HTTP-based template builds can install an attacker-modified worker disk, and concurrent builds can leave duplicate-tag templates that prevent provisioning. These supported workflows should be addressed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3a5ec

The builder can publish an unauthenticated boot image when HTTP is configured, affecting every worker cloned from that template. Its input validation also permits multiline values to become commands in the privileged provisioning program. The HTTPS default and operator-initiated execution limit exposure, but do not enforce these trust boundaries.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · observed: The new privileged builder accepts HTTP factory URLs and imports downloaded image content without authenticating the artifact. An attacker able to modify an HTTP download can substitute the boot image subsequently inherited by workers using that template. HTTPS is the shipped default, so this attack requires an HTTP configuration or another unauthenticated download path; ordinary default HTTPS traffic is not shown to be replaceable.
  • Medium · security · observed: The claimed input-shape boundary does not hold for multiline values: grep -Eqx succeeds when any individual line matches. A VMID containing a valid ID followed by a newline and a command therefore passes validation and becomes executable code in the generated privileged shell. STORAGE and DISK_SIZE are also emitted unquoted. Exploitation requires control of inputs supplied to an authorized create invocation; no tenant-facing or other lower-trust production caller was established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Image substitution affects workers cloned from the compromised template and any pools selecting its exact tag set, potentially spanning multiple clusters using that template. This does not establish hypervisor compromise. Conditional shell injection instead executes with the provisioning identity's authority on the selected hypervisor; its effective cluster, storage, and credential reach depends on that identity's permissions.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The retained image-authenticity finding is supported: an operator-configured HTTP factory exposes the download to network substitution, and the resulting content proceeds directly through extraction, import, and template publication. The flow contains no artifact authenticity verification. The public HTTPS default is important counterevidence but does not enforce secure transport for overrides or redirects.
  • inferred — A lower-trust actor controlling a multiline argument or override supplied to an authorized create invocation could cross from configuration into privileged command execution. Per-line validation and unquoted assignments establish the bypass, but repository evidence does not establish such a lower-trust caller or autonomous tenant reachability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The flow crosses configuration-to-shell, workstation-to-hypervisor, image-service-to-boot-disk, and template-to-worker boundaries. It provides shape checks, normalized selectors, preflight collision checks, and late template conversion. These controls do not establish whole-value shell safety or downloaded-image authenticity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Failures stop subsequent commands, and normal failures before conversion leave a VM rather than a published template. Cleanup removes only the temporary workspace. There is no durable ownership record, rollback, or serialized publication mechanism. Tests cover ordinary collision handling and SSH failure, but not failed VM operations, interruption, or concurrency; publication atomicity and recovery remain unestablished.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Enforce authenticated transport for initial URLs and redirects, and verify image content against an independently trusted digest or signature before privileged import. Treat any intentionally insecure factory mode as an explicit operator exception rather than an ordinary accepted URL.
  • proposed — Reject multiline values and validate each complete input, while avoiding raw interpolation into executable shell text. Explicit resource ownership and serialized template publication would also support safe recovery without deleting unrelated resources.













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Move scratch cleanup after the final assertion.

Each listed rm -rf "$stub" runs before assertions that can fail. A failed test then loses the calls or SSH input needed to diagnose it. Move each removal to the last reachable point after the assertions. Do not add a test-level EXIT trap.

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- Line 83: Update the VERSION validation in the matches check to accept
chart-supported prerelease suffixes, such as v1.13.6-beta.1, while retaining
validation of the vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH base version and rejecting unsupported
forms.
- Line 124: Update the tag check in the `same` assignment and the subsequent
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- Line 85: Update the FACTORY URL validation to require HTTPS, and configure the
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- Line 138: Update the EXIT trap and `qm create` flow to track whether VM
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Marian Koreniuk (@themoriarti) NOT LGTM: the new test file fails two bats audits that landed on main after your base, and the input checks in the script can be bypassed with a newline.

The change itself is worth having. I checked the mechanism: the nocloud profile carries the zfs extension, whose zfs-service depends on /dev/zfs, and the default schematic ce4c9805… is exactly siderolabs/qemu-guest-agent, whose service depends on /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0. Nothing in the repo says which image a Proxmox template needs, so a script plus the description fix is a fair size for it.

On a trial merge with current main, make unit-tests goes red in two places. Main now runs the unit files under real Bats, and hack/bats-strict-setup.bats requires every unit file to have a column-zero load test_helper line under its leading comment. hack/bats-no-negated-assert.bats also rejects line 41, ! printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q openstack, because a statement starting with ! is exempt from errexit. The form it asks for is if printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q openstack; then echo "FAIL: ..."; false; fi. With the load line added, all 10 tests still pass under set -u and the strict-setup audit is clean. Please rebase and fix both.

The shape checks before the root program can be bypassed. grep -Eqx matches per line, so a value with a newline passes when any one of its lines matches. hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh print "$(printf '9002\necho INJECTED')" main-pool prints echo INJECTED as its own line of the program that create runs as root. The same applies to the storage id and the disk size. The person running the script already has root there, so this is not an escalation, but the comment above the checks promises something they don't do. Please reject any value that contains a newline in matches(), and add that case to the "values that would land in the root program unchecked are refused" test.

Not blocking, both from the CodeRabbit threads that have no answer yet:

  1. The version check accepts only vX.Y.Z, while talos.version in the chart allows a pre-release suffix. A pool on v1.13.6-beta.1 can't get a template from this script.
  2. If qm disk resize or qm template fails, the half-built VM keeps its VMID and the next run stops at the nextid check. A line in the failure message about qm destroy would be enough.

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Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei) thanks for the review. Rebased on main (be23873); the fixes are in cdce06f on top of the original commit.

  • load test_helper is at column zero under the leading comment, and the openstack absence check is now if printf '%s' "$out" | grep -q openstack; then echo "FAIL: ..."; false; fi. Under Bats 1.14.0 the file's 12 tests pass, and so do bats-strict-setup, bats-no-negated-assert and bats-no-exit-trap.
  • matches() refuses any value that contains a newline before grep sees it. The "values that would land in the root program unchecked are refused" test now covers a newline in the vmid, the storage id and the disk size. print "$(printf '9002\necho INJECTED')" main-pool exits 1 and prints no program.
  • The version check uses the render's shape, v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[0-9a-z.]+)?, and has a test for v1.13.6-beta.1.
  • If qm disk resize or qm template fails, the program exits 1 and prints remove it with: qm destroy <vmid>. There is a test for that too.

I checked the three new tests against the previous script, and all three fail there.

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Marian Koreniuk (@themoriarti) LGTM, everything from my last review is fixed.

I checked it on a trial merge with current main. The newline injection from my last review now exits 1 without printing a program, under bash and dash. The refusal test catches it: it goes red when I take the newline guard out of matches(), and red again when I drop the one on COZY_TEMPLATE_TAGS. All 12 tests pass under real Bats and under cozytest, and the Bats audits are clean.

Not blocking: the Testing section of the PR body still says 10/10. The body becomes the merge commit message, so please update it to 12.

…ol's Talos values

A proxmox pool clones its workers from a VM template the chart never sees,
and nothing said which Talos image that template has to carry. The one an
operator reaches for, the platform release's nocloud-amd64.raw.xz, is the
bare-metal node image: its zfs extension's service waits for a /dev/zfs no
VM has, the boot sequence never completes, and Talos reboots every worker
each time the boot timeout runs out, about every 70 minutes on v1.13. It
also follows the host nodes' Talos version, not the pool's talos.version
that the installer in the worker machineconfig names.

The chart's default schematic has a trap of its own: its qemu-guest-agent
service waits the same way for the agent's virtio port, which Proxmox adds
only to a VM with the agent enabled.

hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh builds the template from the chart's
talos.schematicID and talos.version in the nocloud flavour with the agent
enabled, refuses a tag set another template already carries, because
capmox then finds two and clones neither, and prints the templateTags
that select it.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Marian Koreniuk <[email protected]>
…te script

matches() held each value to its shape with grep -x, which matches line by
line, so a value with a newline passed when any one of its lines did and
carried the others into the program create runs as root. A value with a
newline is now refused, for every field the program receives.

The test file loads test_helper and spells its absence check without `!`,
for the two Bats audits on main. The Talos version check accepts the
pre-release suffix the chart's render accepts, and a failure after qm create
names the qm destroy that frees the VMID for the next run.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Marian Koreniuk <[email protected]>
COZY_TEMPLATE_TAGS is comma-separated, but the normalisation also split on a
newline, so `talos-v1.\n13` became two tags where the operator meant one. A
newline there is now refused, like in every other value the program receives.

The stub tests clean up their scratch directory after the last assertion, so
a failing test leaves its qm, curl and ssh records behind for inspection.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Marian Koreniuk <[email protected]>
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Aleksei Sviridkin (@lexfrei) thanks for the approval. After it, #3797 (talos.imageFactoryCA) landed on main and conflicted with this PR in the generated packages/system/kubernetes-nodes-rd/cozyrds/kubernetes-nodes.yaml. I rebased onto 08ee470 and resolved it by running make generate with cozyvalues-gen v1.7.0, the version pre-commit pins. The regenerated file now carries both the templateTags description from this PR and imageFactoryCA. The other generated files came out unchanged.

The PR's code is the same as what you approved. Only the first commit differs, and only in that regenerated file. make generate is clean, the script's Bats file and the Bats audits pass, and so does helm unittest for kubernetes-nodes (223/223).

The force-push dismissed your approval. Could you take another look when you have a moment?

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Marian Koreniuk (@themoriarti) LGTM again. Since my approval only the rebase and the regenerated kubernetes-nodes.yaml changed. The range-diff against eb16cf1 is otherwise clean. make generate with cozyvalues-gen v1.7.0 gives no drift on the head and on a trial merge with current main. On that merge the 12 bats cases and the kubernetes-nodes helm unittest pass.

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## What this PR does

#3797 added `talos.imageFactoryCA`, so a pool's CDI import can verify a
self-hosted Image Factory served by an internal CA.
`hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh` (#4742) downloads the same image with
curl on the Proxmox node. curl there trusts only the system store, so
with that kind of factory it fails with `curl: (60) SSL certificate
problem: unable to get local issuer certificate`, which is exactly the
setup #3797 was written for.

`COZY_TALOS_FACTORY_CA` names a PEM file that holds those certificates,
the same blocks a pool puts in `talos.imageFactoryCA`. The program
writes the node's system bundle into its scratch directory, appends the
certificates after it, and passes the result to `curl --cacert`. They
are therefore trusted on top of the system store, the same way CDI
appends them to its pool, and a redirect to a publicly trusted host
still verifies. Nothing is installed into the node's own trust store.

The certificates are pasted into the program that runs as root on the
hypervisor, so the file is held to the rule
`cozy-lib.tls.validateCACert` applies to the chart value: it must
contain complete certificate blocks and nothing else. The script refuses
a file with a private key alongside the certificates, with trailing
text, or with an unclosed block, and it does so before printing
anything. It also refuses a CA given for a plain-http factory. On the
same principle, curl gets `--proto-redir =https` whenever a CA is set,
so a redirect cannot take the download off verified TLS halfway. Without
the variable, the program is byte-for-byte what it was.

Follows #3797 and #4742.

### Testing

- `bats hack/proxmox-talos-template_test.bats` (Bats 1.14.0) passes
15/15. Three tests are new: the program without a CA is unchanged; with
a CA, curl receives `--proto-redir =https` and the system bundle
followed by the certificates, and CRLF line endings are stripped;
malformed files and a CA for an http factory are refused. The new tests
go red against the script from #4742, against a validator that accepts
any line, and against a bundle that leaves out the system store.
- The same file passes 15/15 under mawk and under busybox awk.
- `bats-strict-setup`, `bats-no-negated-assert` and `bats-no-exit-trap`
are clean, and so is `shellcheck -s sh`.
- The bundle the program writes was checked against a local `openssl
s_server` with a certificate from a throwaway CA: curl verifies with the
bundle and fails with `(60)` without it.
- Against a local HTTPS server that redirects to http, curl follows the
redirect without the flag and stops with `(1) Protocol "http" not
supported or disabled` with it.
- Re-run after the rebase onto main 11b1963, with #4742 merged: the
bats file is 15/15 under Bats 1.14.0, mawk and busybox awk, the three
Bats audits pass, `shellcheck -s sh` is clean and
`hack/check-commit-trailers.sh` passes.
- Run live on a Proxmox VE 9.2 node (curl 8.14.1) against a stand-in
factory: an HTTPS server with a certificate from a throwaway CA, reached
from the node through an ssh tunnel, given as `COZY_TALOS_FACTORY_URL`
with `COZY_TALOS_FACTORY_CA` naming that CA. Each run used a test VMID
and tags no pool selects, and the template was destroyed afterwards.
- Without the CA, the program stops at curl with `(60)` before `qm
create`.
- With the CA and a factory that redirects to http, curl stops with `(1)
Protocol "http" disabled (in redirect)`, again before `qm create`.
- With the CA and a factory that serves the image itself, the template
is built (76 s): `agent: enabled=1`, `template: 1`, the given tags.
- With the CA and a factory that redirects to
`https://factory.talos.dev`, the template is built (53 s), so the system
store is still trusted after the redirect.
- Neither a CA file with a private key appended nor a CA for an http
factory gets past the local checks.
- After every run the node's `/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt` has
the same sha256, and no scratch directory is left in `/var/tmp`.

### Screenshots

Not applicable, no UI change.

### Downstream repositories

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change

The change is a `hack/` script and its test. No chart value, schema or
generated file changes.

### Release note

```release-note
feat(kubernetes-nodes): `hack/proxmox-talos-template.sh` accepts `COZY_TALOS_FACTORY_CA`, a PEM file with the CA of a self-hosted Image Factory, and trusts it on top of the Proxmox node's system store for the image download. A factory that needs `talos.imageFactoryCA` for CDI now works for Proxmox templates too.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* HTTPS downloads of Talos images can now use certificates from a
specified private CA file, alongside the Proxmox node’s trusted
certificates.
* Private CA files are validated, and downloads are restricted to HTTPS.
Without a specified CA file, downloads continue using the existing
system trust behavior.
* **Tests**
* Added coverage for private CA handling, certificate-file validation,
and HTTPS requirements.
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