Trouble and questions about adding user-specific files

[larrywalters]

Greetings! I am trying to add some particular files to the Talos control_plane node. My goal is to have a particular Pod read them when it starts up. However, whenever I add the specification to the machine patch, I cannot get the cluster to launch successfully. I tried multiple forms, and even with a stripped down form like this:

	{
		"op": "add",
		"path": "/machine/files",
		"value": [
			{
				"content": "This is a test",
				"path": "/tmp/test.txt",
				"op": "create"
			}
		]
	},

I get this:

validating CIDR and reserving IPs
generating PKI and tokens
creating network talos-default
creating controlplane nodes
creating worker nodes
renamed talosconfig context "talos-default" -> "talos-default-14"
waiting for API
bootstrapping cluster
bootstrap error: 2 error(s) occurred:
	rpc error: code = DeadlineExceeded desc = context deadline exceeded
	timeout

Ultimately, my goal is to add some authentication related files and some tarballs to the node. Can I just specify the path to these files on my local machine in the content field, or do I have to put the actual bytes in the machine patch? Would this even work for something like a tarball?

Another thing I found confusing was that there is a permissions field, which I did not include above, but I have tried with it (also without success). My understanding of the Talos filesystem is that it is immutable once the cluster is launched. Therefore, wouldn't the file permissions always be read-only? Why then is there a permissions option? If my understanding of the filesystem is not correct, please let me know!

Thank you for any help!