I am using psyopsOS for my cluster. psyopsOS is an operating system I build based on Alpine Linux; see ♘ psyopsOS .

When creating the cluster for the first time #

Make sure that k3s is not set to start on boot. Set start_k3s to False for all of the nodes in the cluster in progfiguration.

Once the cluster is up, re-enable k3s auto start on boot.