feat(talos)!: bump Talos to v1.14.2

[Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei)]

What this PR does

Bumps the Talos image Cozystack builds from v1.13.6 to v1.14.2 to get a newer DRBD. v1.13.6 ships DRBD 9.3.2, v1.13.7 and later and v1.14.0/v1.14.1 ship 9.3.3, and v1.14.2 is the first release with 9.3.4. ZFS moves from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4.

On 9.3.2 I've seen a peer reboot leave the DRBD sender thread spinning on a failed send (EPIPE). What followed was RCU stalls, processes stuck in D-state, a hanging drbdsetup disconnect and two-phase-commit timeouts. The 9.3.4 ChangeLog has fixes for a sender thread pinning a CPU while its connection is down, for two-phase-commit issues and a hanging drbdadm disconnect, and for two nodes ending UpToDate with different data after a reconnect. None of them are in 9.3.3. I matched the trace to those entries by their descriptions only, not against the commits.

The base installer image had to change. Talos v1.14 no longer publishes ghcr.io/siderolabs/installer, so gen-profiles.sh now uses ghcr.io/siderolabs/installer-base, same as upstream's own v1.14 imager profiles. I built the amd64 installer from the new profile with imager:v1.14.2 locally and it builds without errors.

PR CI will not boot the new image. It builds the installer and matchbox images, but the e2e runs on the upstream talos:v1.13.5 container from hack/e2e-compose.yaml. The first run that boots the new kernel, DRBD and ZFS is the nightly after merge, which builds the nocloud disk from these profiles and runs it in QEMU.

On Talos v1.14.2 the drbd_transport_tcp module is no longer loaded on demand. After upgrading a node from v1.13.6, drbd was loaded and the transport module was not, drbdsetup new-peer failed with "Failed to create transport (drbd_transport_xxx module missing?)", and every DRBD resource on the node stayed in Connecting. Listing the module in machine.kernel.modules fixed it without a reboot. The cause is siderolabs/pkgs#1565, in Talos since v1.14.0: the kernel is built with an empty modprobe path, so it no longer loads modules on request_module(), which is how DRBD asks for its transport. Any module that used to load that way now has to be listed explicitly (reported upstream as siderolabs/talos#14501). Outside DRBD this includes dm-thin-pool and dm-multipath, which the v1.14.2 kernel builds as modules, so LVM-thin or multipath users on Talos need them listed too. The e2e node config now loads drbd_transport_tcp explicitly, and the talm preset (cozystack/talm#252) and the install docs (cozystack/website#720) get the same line. The module ships in the drbd extension on v1.13 too, so the extra line is safe before the upgrade.

The order matters for host nodes. Either update the cozystack preset in the talm project to a version with cozystack/talm#252 and re-render and apply the node config, or add drbd_transport_tcp to machine.kernel.modules by hand. Only then upgrade the node to v1.14.2. A node upgraded first loses DRBD replication until the module is added.

The host network policy now also denies port 2383 to world. Talos v1.14 moved etcd's /metrics, /health and gRPC-gateway JSON API from 2379 to a separate listener on 2383, and the policy only blocked 2379 and 2380. Without this, the etcd JSON API on v1.14 control-plane nodes would be reachable from outside, protected only by client mTLS.

Two smaller changes come with the bump. The multus talos-cni-plugins-checked-against marker moves to v1.14.2, because the pkgs release behind Talos v1.14.2 still pins CNI plugins v1.9.1, same as multus. The system memory limits doc now describes the v1.14 OOM trigger, since v1.14.0 dropped its global memory PSI clause (siderolabs/talos#13895).

Before upgrading hosts, operators should know a few things from the v1.14.0 release notes and the Talos compatibility code:

• Talos v1.14 accepts a host upgrade from v1.12.0 or later. It supports Kubernetes 1.32 through 1.37, while v1.13 still accepted 1.31, so a cluster on Kubernetes 1.31 has to upgrade Kubernetes first.
• etcd's HTTP endpoints (/metrics, /health) moved from port 2379 to 2383. The Cozystack etcd scrape proxy reads a separate metrics listener on 127.0.0.1:2381, which this change does not move. Anything else that scraped or health-checked etcd on 2379 has to switch to 2383, and a firewall outside the cluster that blocked 2379 should block 2383 too.
• etcd and kube-apiserver now require TLS 1.3, so a client that can only speak TLS 1.2 stops connecting.
• Workload isolation (SecurityProfileConfig) stays off on upgraded clusters, but talosctl gen config turns it on for new ones. I haven't tested Cozystack with it enabled.
• talosctl apply-config --mode=reboot is gone.

Screenshots

Not a UI change.

Downstream repositories

• No downstream repository is affected by this change
• cozystack/website - follow-up: docs: move the next docs to Talos v1.14.2 website#720
• cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack - follow-up:
• cozystack/ansible-cozystack - follow-up:
• cozystack/ccp - follow-up:
• cozystack/talm - follow-up: fix(cozystack): load drbd_transport_tcp explicitly talm#252
• cozystack/cozyhr - follow-up:
• cozystack/cozy-proxy - follow-up:
• cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server - follow-up:
• cozystack/external-apps-example - follow-up:
• cozystack/examples - follow-up:
• cozystack/community - follow-up:

The website PR refreshes the next version pins for v1.14.2 and adds the module to the Talos install pages. The talm PR adds it to the cozystack preset.

Release note

feat(talos): Bump Talos to v1.14.2, which ships DRBD 9.3.4 and ZFS 2.4.4. DRBD 9.3.4 fixes a sender thread spinning on a dead connection, two-phase-commit hangs and a data divergence after a reconnect. Before upgrading a node, add `drbd_transport_tcp` to its Talos `machine.kernel.modules` next to `drbd`: Talos v1.14.2 no longer loads it on demand, and without it DRBD cannot connect to any peer. We recommend skipping the v1.13 line and upgrading nodes straight to v1.14.2. Talos accepts a direct upgrade from v1.12.0 or later. Talos v1.14 moves etcd's HTTP metrics and health endpoints from port 2379 to 2383, and the Cozystack host network policy now blocks 2383 from outside the cluster.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Updates
  • Upgraded host node support to Talos v1.14.2 across machine images, with refreshed firmware and storage extensions.
  • Updated memory-pressure guidance for Talos v1.14, including version-specific behavior and configuration recommendations.
  • Added protection for Talos v1.14’s etcd HTTP endpoint on port 2383.
  • Updated cluster preparation to load the TCP transport module required for DRBD.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Talos image profiles advance from v1.13.6 to v1.14.2. Related cluster configuration, network policy, Multus version comparison, and memory-limit guidance are updated.

Changes

Talos v1.14.2 Upgrade

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update Talos image profiles packages/core/talos/hack/gen-profiles.sh, packages/core/talos/images/talos/profiles/*	Generated and checked-in profiles use installer-base:v1.14.2. The profiles also update system extension image versions and digests.
Update Talos-related cluster configuration hack/e2e-prepare-cluster.bats, packages/system/cilium-networkpolicy/templates/networkpolicy.yaml, packages/system/cilium-networkpolicy/tests/networkpolicy_test.yaml, packages/system/multus/images/multus-cni/Dockerfile	The e2e machine patch loads drbd_transport_tcp. The Cilium policy denies ingress on port 2383, and its test checks ports 2379, 2380, and 2383. The Multus comparison marker changes to v1.14.2.
Revise memory-limit guidance docs/operations/system-memory-limits.md	The guidance describes v1.14.2 memory-stall triggers, the v1.13 global-PSI backstop, the v1.13 host-node workaround, and version-specific responses to memory pressure.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 45882

Operators can select Talos v1.14.2 with Kubernetes v1.31 or v1.32, an unsupported pairing the charts currently allow. Block merge until both compatibility guards enforce the v1.14 support range.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 45882

The network-policy change restricts external access to the newly separated etcd port, and no privilege expansion is demonstrated. The main remaining risk is storage continuity: the transport-module prerequisite is addressed in test configuration, but production upgrade ordering and recovery are not verified.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: The upgrade changes the DRBD peer-creation precondition to require explicit drbd_transport_tcp loading. The inspected e2e configuration supplies it before configuration application, but production configuration ownership, per-node ordering, and recovery were unavailable. A host upgraded without that prerequisite can fail to establish replication peers, affecting failure containment for dependent volumes. This is a conditional rollout concern, not a demonstrated production omission or data-loss finding.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The potential rollout impact reaches hosts selecting the generated images and workloads dependent on their DRBD-backed volumes. Its extent depends on external host configuration and upgrade sequencing; the evidence does not establish fleet-wide adoption, tenant compromise, or an attacker-controlled upgrade path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new installer input remains within the existing Siderolabs image-source boundary. The imager still runs privileged with host device access, and secureboot remains false in the inspected base and head profiles. These are existing trust assumptions, not newly introduced authority; external image signing and live enforcement were not verified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The existing Talos LINSTOR configuration deletes the DRBD module-loader init container, so shipping the extension alone is not a demonstrated recovery mechanism for the changed transport-loading prerequisite. Explicit machine configuration is consequently important to preserving replication connectivity across host transitions.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make the external production rollout enforce persisted transport-module configuration before each host upgrade, verify peer connectivity before advancing, and validate interrupted, repeated, mixed-version, and rollback transitions with the generated image.

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- Line 6: Add Talos v1.14’s Kubernetes compatibility entry to the
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official Talos Linux v1.14.2 Kubernetes version compatibility minimum Kubernetes v1.32

💡 Result:

**No—Talos v1.14.2 is not verified by the official sources I found.** As of September 30, 2026, the official release page lists **v1.14.1** as the latest v1.14 release, and its bundled Kubernetes version is **v1.37.0**. I couldn’t find an official v1.14.2 release or a v1.14.2 compatibility entry, so the specific claim that it supports Kubernetes **1.32 as a minimum** remains unconfirmed. ([github.com](https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases?utm_source=openai))

The release page establishes the bundled Kubernetes version for **v1.14.1**, not the minimum supported version for v1.14.2. For the exact compatibility claim, consult Talos’s version-specific support matrix; the sources found here don’t establish that minimum.

Citations:

- 1: https://github.com/siderolabs/talos/releases?utm_source=openai

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site:docs.siderolabs.com/talos/v1.14 "support matrix" Kubernetes v1.32

💡 Result:

Talos **v1.14 does not list Kubernetes v1.32 as supported**. Its support matrix lists Kubernetes **v1.33–v1.37** for Talos 1.14; **v1.32** appears under Talos **v1.13**. ([docs.siderolabs.com](https://docs.siderolabs.com/talos/v1.14/getting-started/support-matrix/))

Citations:

- 1: https://docs.siderolabs.com/talos/v1.14/getting-started/support-matrix/

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Add Talos v1.14 to both compatibility matrices.

When a tenant selects talos.version: v1.14.2, or a worker selects osImage.builtin.version or osImage.factory.version: v1.14.2, Kubernetes v1.31 remains an allowed chart option. Both guards skip validation because their matrices contain only v1.13.

Talos v1.14 supports Kubernetes v1.33 through v1.37; v1.31 and v1.32 are unsupported. The current path can therefore render a silently broken Talos/kubelet pairing. Add the v1.14 entry to the cluster guard and the shared worker guard.

Suggested fix

diff --git a/packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml b/packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml
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 {{- $talosK8sSupportMatrix := dict
       "v1.13" (list "v1.31" "v1.32" "v1.33" "v1.34" "v1.35" "v1.36")
+      "v1.14" (list "v1.33" "v1.34" "v1.35" "v1.36" "v1.37")
 }}

diff --git a/packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/_helpers.tpl b/packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/_helpers.tpl
@@
 {{- $talosK8sSupportMatrix := dict
       "v1.13" (list "v1.31" "v1.32" "v1.33" "v1.34" "v1.35" "v1.36")
+      "v1.14" (list "v1.33" "v1.34" "v1.35" "v1.36" "v1.37")
 -}}

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Add Talos v1.14’s Kubernetes compatibility entry to the talosK8sSupportMatrix in
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Verdict

LGTM, with non-blocking notes.

A clean Talos v1.13.6 to v1.14.2 bump. The generated imager profiles, the installer to installer-base rename, the etcd 2383 network-policy hardening, the OOM doc rewrite and the multus marker all hold up against upstream and under execution.

Verified:

• installer:v1.14.2 is gone (manifest unknown) and installer-base:v1.14.2 exists for both arches, so the rename is required, not cosmetic. gen-profiles.sh v1.14.2 reproduces all 12 committed profiles byte-for-byte, every extension digest and both arches.
• The 2383 deny lands in the right list and the ingress clause still admits host and cluster. The etcd metrics scrape goes through 127.0.0.1:2381, which the 2379-to-2383 move leaves alone, so monitoring does not regress. helm unittest is 4/4 and the new assertion is non-vacuous: drop 2383 from the template and the suite goes red.
• drbd_transport_tcp.ko ships in the drbd extension on both v1.13.6 and v1.14.2, so listing it before the upgrade is safe. The multus CNI pin (v1.9.1) matches what the pkgs release behind v1.14.2 ships.

Non-blocking notes

• Upgrade ordering leans on two sibling PRs that are still open. The host-node drbd_transport_tcp line lives in cozystack/talm#252 and cozystack/website#720, both open as I write this. The one in-repo machine config, hack/e2e-prepare-cluster.bats, is updated correctly, but cozystack renders no host config of its own, so until those two land the documented "update the talm preset, then upgrade" path isn't actually walkable: an operator on the current preset who upgrades a host node first loses DRBD replication until the module is added by hand. Nothing to change here, just worth landing the two carriers alongside this. The feat!: marker and the release note already spell the ordering out.
• The release note names drbd_transport_tcp but not dm-thin-pool or dm-multipath, which the same empty-modprobe-path change also stops autoloading on v1.14. Those only bite manual LVM-thin or multipath setups, and cozystack standardises on ZFS, so it is minor and the PR body already mentions them.
• Not run here, since it needs a live cluster: the SSA apply of the updated CiliumClusterwideNetworkPolicy onto an existing cluster, and the v1.14 TLS 1.3 floor. Both reason out safe. The nightly after merge is the first run that actually boots the new kernel, DRBD and ZFS (PR CI still boots talos:v1.13.5), so that is the real coverage to watch.