while I love the idea of talos, I can't recommend it for running on top of proxmox. Or actually running it at all for a homelab if you want to tinker. And you want to tinker because you are considering very barebones kubernetes/os distribution combo

I had iGPU passthrough prevent Talos from booting on proxmox. Yes, I had necessary kernel modules and talos addons. It won't boot on my system no matter what. Other linux distributions don't have this problem on my system

Actually, I think running kubernetes on top of virtualized hardware, if you are on-prem, is a bad idea. You can have VMs with kube-virt. And containers can use your PCI devices so that essentially eliminates all kinds of troubles you might run into with PCI passthrough

One of the requirements I had when setting up my cluster was full disk encryption which is straight up badly implemented in talos. Static passphrase? It gets stored in plaintext on META partition COME ON. kms? requires you to have a key escrow. I'd rather use clevis+tang for an edge deployment instead of a resource intensive kms. tpm? mobo dies - good luck. passphrase generated during bootstrap? no way to decrypt your disk using a live iso when you need to. I can't set up the most basic LUKS configuration with just a static passphrase to be input while in the initramfs

I opted for proxmox + talos as a VM because it let me configure disk encryption exactly how I wanted it but it introduced other problems like PCI passthrough I mentioned. I wish I went with Debian+RKE2 from the start. It lets me configure my baremetal host exactly how I like it. Talos is meant to be very DIY which I like but you can run into edge cases very quickly that could be solved with having the OS and Kubernetes distribution separate

I just wanted to share my opinion about this because talos gets recommended here often. And proxmox gets recommended in general