[feature] File server for ISOs

[chwonl]

Problem Description

When I need to upload a talos ISO to a server (read VPS) provider, often a URL is required for ISO upload. This means I need to provide a URL like https://myserver.org/my-talos-iso.iso. It is rather rare, that I can upload the ISO directly from my computer.

This requires me to spin up a machine and install a webserver (i.e. nginx) and scp the ISO there.

This is rather cumbersome in my experience: I download the ISO, I deploy a server, I scp the ISO there...

Solution

It would be great if I had the possibility to click a button in the "Download Installation Media" dialog that is called "serve ISO for x hours" or something similar. Then, in the right sidebar of the home screen a new button will appear that will show me the URL for the ISO (for example https://myserver.org/my-talos-iso.iso) also with a button to copy the text.

Like that, after creation of the ISO, I could just head over to my VPS provider and paste the URL there.

Alternative Solutions

All the alternatives would require me to download the ISO first.

Notes

No response

[fsgh42]

Any reason why can't use https://factory.talos.dev for that?

[Slessi]

https://factory.talos.dev/ is indeed the solution, but maybe we can reflect that inside omni.

@chwonl Would something like this work for you?

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[6ixfalls]

This would be awesome - I'm currently just copying the pxe schematic hash and modifying the URL to the file type.

[chwonl]

Yes, this is the solution! Very very good! This would streamline the process so much.
Please implement this.

Edit: Assuming the image expires after a certain period of time, what is it and maybe you could reflect it directly in the drop-down?

[rothgar]

The images don't "expire" because they are built on the fly and repeatable on known URLs. But they may be removed from the distribution cache on the image factory.