This guide provides information about the Kubernetes control plane, and details on how Talos runs and bootstraps the Kubernetes control plane. What is a control plane node? A control plane node is a node which: runs etcd, the Kubernetes database runs the Kubernetes control plane kube-apiserver kube-controller-manager kube-scheduler serves as an administrative proxy to the worker nodes These nodes are critical to the operation of your cluster. Without control plane nodes, Kubernetes will not r...