Stuck on setting up the ACME section of config.yaml

[bitpushr]

Hi all,

I have managed to somehow stumble my way through following the cluster template guide and have gotten Talos up and running. I was previously stuck on earlier steps with issues like this but have managed to overcome those. I now have a running (?) Talos VM.

However, I'm unable to do anything with it as I'm getting "error reading server preface: remote error: tls: certificate required" and some other TLS-related errors whether trying to issue Talos commands via VSCode (using the DevContainer) or Talosctl directly. I figured it's something to do with the ACME section, under bootstrap_cloudflare in the config.yaml, but I'm stuck on what to actually do here. Currently, this section in my config looks like

bootstrap_cloudflare:
  enabled: true
  domain: "mydomain.com"
  token: "tokenhere"
  acme:
    email: "emailaddresshere"
    # (Required) Use the ACME production server when requesting the wildcard certificate.
    #   By default the ACME staging server is used. This is to prevent being rate-limited.
    #   Update this option to `true` when you have verified the staging certificate
    #   works and then re-run `task configure` and push your changes to Github.
    production: false

My issue is that I don't actually know what to do here. I don't know how to verify if a staging certificate works or even exists, nor do I know how to obtain one. Would much appreciate any pointers! This is currently my only blocker with regard to proceeding with the rest of the guide/stage 6.

Thanks

[bitpushr]

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