Is there a hook in RKE2 + Canal to pass in

--flannel-backend=none

for single node clusters? Flannel is causing issues because in some cases our nodes don't have a default gateway. There's some hacks we can put in place but I'd rater just disable it since we don't make use of the overlay at all.

pass that arg in to what?

My understanding is that with Canal, flannel only enters the picture when there's node-node comms via vxlan (or whatever.). The Calico part seems to do all the heavy lifting on the node local side of things.

No. Canal is Calico for network policy, and Flannel for pod network. If you remove flannel, you have no pod network.

From what I can see, calico-node (felix) is doing all the node-local stuff.

you still need something to set up the pod network, handle ipam, and so on.

ok that makes sense.

correct

Thanks @creamy-pencil-82913