Hello, asking for a bit of crowd wisdom - what’s the fastest way for provisioning a rke2 cluster in HA deployment? I.e. shortest time from 0 nodes to e.g. 10. I want to keep control plane/etcd separate from data nodes. K8s cluster is created with VMs, so there is some time on VM creation/initialisation too. So far I have: • 1. step - 1 ctrl/etcd, 1 worker - to get cluster up and running via rancher custom provisioner • 2. step - 1 more ctrl/etcd - triggers reconciliation • 3. step - 1 more ctrl/etcd - triggers reconciliation • 4. step - all remaining workers Is there a better way?

If your Rancher hosted cluster has decent hardware (ie isn't something like a Rasberry Pi) you should be just fine to simplify the setup to 1. 3 ctrl/etcd, 1 agent 2. all remaining agents (workers)

Thanks! Adding 3 ctrl at once - this has been a pretty fragile operation with rke1, often leading to a stuck cluster. I haven't yet seen the same with rke2, but just for safety thought of a sequential addition of etcds. Too safe?