The primary control plane was stalling because kubelet still had to pull both
the Rancher pause image and the kube-vip image before the DaemonSet pod could
become Ready. Pre-pull those images into containerd, extend the readiness wait,
and emit pod diagnostics if kube-vip still does not come up.
The local kube-vip readiness probe used an unquoted jsonpath predicate,
which made kubectl treat Ready as an identifier instead of a string. Use a
quoted jsonpath via shell so bootstrap can detect the primary kube-vip pod
properly before waiting on the API VIP.
The kube-vip DaemonSet is applied before the secondary control planes join,
so waiting for a full DaemonSet rollout blocks bootstrap on nodes that do not
exist in the cluster yet. Wait only for the primary node's kube-vip pod and
then verify the VIP is reachable on 6443.
Replace Hetzner infrastructure and cloud-provider assumptions with Proxmox
VM clones, kube-vip API HA, and NFS-backed storage. Update bootstrap,
Flux addons, CI workflows, and docs to target the new private Proxmox
baseline while preserving the existing Tailscale, Doppler, Flux, Rancher,
and B2 backup flows.
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