Install

Build from source

Talos requires Go 1.23 or later.

OSS edition

git clone https://github.com/ory/talos.git
cd talos
go build -o .bin/talos .

The binary is at .bin/talos. SQLite is the only supported database backend in the OSS edition.

Commercial edition

The Commercial edition adds PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, caching, multi-tenancy, and the admin UI:

go build -tags commercial -o .bin/talos-commercial .

Verify the installation

./.bin/talos --version
./.bin/talos help

Run database migrations

Before starting the server, run migrations to create the database schema:

# SQLite (OSS)
./.bin/talos migrate up --database "sqlite:///path/to/talos.db"

# PostgreSQL (Commercial)
./.bin/talos-commercial migrate up --database "postgres://user:pass@localhost:5432/talos"

# MySQL (Commercial)
./.bin/talos-commercial migrate up --database "mysql://user:pass@tcp(localhost:3306)/talos"

# CockroachDB (Commercial)
./.bin/talos-commercial migrate up --database "cockroach://user@localhost:26257/talos"

Start the server

./.bin/talos serve --config config.yaml

See Configure for config file format and options.

Docker

See Docker deployment for running Talos in containers.