fix: harden cluster rebuild determinism

ansible/roles/kube-vip-deploy/tasks/main.yml

@@ -40,17 +40,6 @@
   register: kube_vip_image_pull
   loop: "{{ kube_vip_prepull_images }}"
   changed_when: "'pulled image' in kube_vip_image_pull.stdout"
-  failed_when: false
-
-- name: Report kube-vip images that did not pre-pull after retries
-  debug:
-    msg: >-
-      Best-effort kube-vip image pre-pull did not complete for {{ item.item }} after
-      3 attempt(s): {{ item.stderr | default('no stderr') }}
-  loop: "{{ kube_vip_image_pull.results | default([]) }}"
-  loop_control:
-    label: "{{ item.item }}"
-  when: item.rc is defined and item.rc != 0
 
 - name: Render kube-vip control plane manifest
   template:
@@ -60,6 +49,10 @@
 
 - name: Apply kube-vip control plane manifest
   command: kubectl apply -f /tmp/kube-vip-control-plane.yaml
+  register: kube_vip_apply
+  until: kube_vip_apply.rc == 0
+  retries: 3
+  delay: 10
   changed_when: true
 
 - name: Wait for local kube-vip pod to be ready