Hi everyone, I'm trying to provision a vSphere RKE2 cluster via Rancher (installed via Helm inside an AKS cluster). The cluster setup gets stuck at: > Configuring bootstrap node(s): waiting for agent to check in and apply initial plan Here’s what I’ve already tried: • Using Ubuntu cloud image (tried both focal and jammy) • VMs receive IPs in vCenter and are accessible via SSH • Curl to Rancher endpoint over HTTPS works from the nodes (valid SSL cert) • No firewall is blocking access between Rancher and the nodes • DNS: Azure Private Resolver pointing to on-prem DNS, which resolves both Rancher and vCenter I attached two pictures that show the issue. Would really appreciate any advice on what else I can check or try. Thanks 🙏 Naor

log in to a node in the downstream cluster and check the cattle-cluster-agent pod logs to see why it can’t connect to Rancher. I suspect the answer is probably DNS related.

Check the created VMs also. Is a bootstrap ISO mounted? vm hardware properties itself, as well as mounts in the OS. I have the same issue with vsphere on arm64. By default, rancher creates an IDE device with its ISO mounted. Arm64 doesn't work with IDE, so the bootstrap doesn't start. Powering off VM, changing device type to sata, and powering on again - win. Anyway, journalctl or /var/log/syslog should bring more details