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figured it out. I was trying to add some extra labels to my worker nodes with a config file in

/etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml.d/

with

node-label: 
    - smarter-device-manager=enabled
    - node-type=compute

I don't know if my syntax is off or that's just not the right place to do that kind of thing. Previously we'd have a section of the user data script that would sleep until the node joined the cluster and then label itself with

kubectl

commands, I was trying to get away from doing that.