I think you’re confused about the different flags though.

--disable=foo

take a list of disables for packaged components - one or more of the manifests such as coredns, traefik, metrics-server.

--disable-etcd=true

is a flag that disables a built-in controller, such as etcd, kube-apiserver, cloud-controller-manager, and so on. Each component has its own separate flag.

They are not ambiguous, they do different things, even though they might be similarly named.

You cannot use --disable=etcd to accomplish the same thing as --disable-etcd=true. etcd is an embedded controller, not a packaged component

Might be good to have clearer parameter naming ^^; e.g.

--disable-manifest

and

--disable-internal

@creamy-pencil-82913 If I use

--datastore-endpoint

for connecting to external etcd, should I pass

--disable-etcd=true

? What happens if I do/don’t disable embedded etcd?