Quickstart
One command, then open the link it prints.
Run the installer for your system. It checks the machine, asks before it changes anything, sets Talos up and prints where to open it, together with a one-time setup token for the first account.
Open the link, choose “Create the first one”, enter the setup token and create your account. Whoever creates the first account becomes the administrator. The token prevents anyone else from doing it first.
Other ways in
A new cloud server can install Talos from its start-up script, with no SSH at all; see “Install on a cloud server”. To evaluate Talos first, “Try Talos on your computer” installs a copy only your computer can reach, and removes it again with one command. And if you would rather not run a script, “Install by hand” is the same two files the installer writes.
There is no API URL to configure
The browser talks to the frontend on a relative /api path and the frontend forwards to the backend inside the Docker network. Talos therefore works at whatever hostname you put in front of it.