I know this is a dumb question and I did not have a say in the design choice, but is there a procedure to safely bring up/down a 2-node cluster?

2 nods with embedded etcd? or external SQL DB? or just 1 server 1 agent?

@creamy-pencil-82913 2 servers w/ embedded etcd agents will be added and removed at will manually.

2 servers with embedded etcd is worse than 1 server. With 2 servers you have a quorum of 2, so both need to be online at all times.

Ah okay, fair enough! Thanks.

this is also covered in our docs here: https://docs.k3s.io/datastore/ha-embedded