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# Deploy Your First Workload to a Talos Cluster

> Deploy a sample workload to your Talos cluster to get started.

Deploying your first workload validates that your cluster is working properly and that you can schedule, expose, and access applications successfully.

If you don’t have a cluster running yet, check out the [Getting Started](./getting-started) or [Production Notes](./prodnotes) guides to learn how to create one.

To deploy a sample application to your cluster:

1. Run this command to deploy the application and expose it via a NodePort:

   ```bash
   kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/siderolabs/example-workload/refs/heads/main/deploy/example-svc-nodeport.yaml
   ```

2. Verify that your pods and services are running:

   ```bash
   kubectl get pods,services # Lists the deployed pods and services
   ```

3. Create a NODE\_IP variable by retrieving an IP address of any one of your nodes:

   ```bash
   NODE_IP=$(kubectl get nodes -o jsonpath='{.items[0].status.addresses[?(@.type=="InternalIP")].address}'; echo)
   ```

4. Retrieve the NodePort assigned to your Service using:

   ```bash
   NODE_PORT=$(kubectl get svc example-workload -o jsonpath='{.spec.ports[0].nodePort}')
   ```

5. Verify your application is running:

   ```bash
   curl http://$NODE_IP:$NODE_PORT
   ```

   And here is your application:

   ```text

   🎉 CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉
   ========================================

   You successfully deployed the example workload!

   Resources:
   ----------
   🔗 Talos Linux: https://talos.dev
   🔗 Omni: https://omni.siderolabs.com
   🔗 Sidero Labs: https://siderolabs.com

   ========================================

   ```

## What’s Next?

* [Pod Security](../../../kubernetes-guides/security/pod-security)
* [Set up persistent storage](../../../kubernetes-guides/csi/storage)
* [Deploy a Metrics Server](../../../kubernetes-guides/monitoring-and-observability/deploy-metrics-server)
* [Explore the talosctl CLI reference](../reference/cli)