so thought I'd just try what was in https://docs.rke2.io/upgrade/automated_upgrade/ and ended up with this /system-upgrade$ kubectl apply -f https://github.com/rancher/system-upgrade-controller/releases/download/v0.9.1/system-upgrade-controller.yaml -n system-upgrade namespace/system-upgrade unchanged serviceaccount/system-upgrade unchanged clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/system-upgrade unchanged configmap/default-controller-env unchanged deployment.apps/system-upgrade-controller unchanged ~/system-upgrade$ kubectl apply -f rke2.yml -n system-upgrade resource mapping not found for name: "server-plan" namespace: "system-upgrade" from "rke2.yml": no matches for kind "Plan" in version "upgrade.cattle.io/v1" ensure CRDs are installed first resource mapping not found for name: "agent-plan" namespace: "system-upgrade" from "rke2.yml": no matches for kind "Plan" in version "upgrade.cattle.io/v1" ensure CRDs are installed first

If you don’t apply the Plan CRD, you’ll need to wait for the controller deployment to start and load the CRD for you before you can apply the upgrade plan.

I'll remove that ns and try to split things up and verify in between each step again. Thank you.