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title: Deploying Talos on Bare Metal
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In this section we will show how you can setup Talos in bare-metal environments.

## Kernel Parameters

The following is a list of kernel parameters you will need to set:

- `talos.config` (required) the HTTP(S) URL at which the machine data can be found
- `talos.platform` (required) should be 'metal' for bare-metal installs

Talos also enforces some minimum requirements from the KSPP (kernel self-protection project).
The follow parameters are required:

- `page_poison=1`
- `slab_nomerge`
- `slub_debug=P`
- `pti=on`