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Your initial " should be before the --

Sorry, I copy pasted that double quotes and it was a mistake that was put there. In the actual line of code the quotation is before the --.

export INSTALL_K3S_EXEC="--https-listen-port xxxx --tls-san xxxxx --node-external-ip x.x.x.x --secrets-encryption true --advertise-address x.x.x.x --cluster-cidr x.x.x.x/16 --service-cidr x.x.x.x/16 --cluster-dns x.x.x.x --flannel-backend wireguard-native --disable traefik --protect-kernel-defaults=true --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-path=/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/logs/audit.log' --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-policy-file=/var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/audit.yaml' --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-maxage=30' --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-maxbackup=10' --kube-apiserver-arg='audit-log-maxsize=100' --kube-apiserver-arg='request-timeout=300s' --kube-apiserver-arg='service-account-lookup=true' --kube-apiserver-arg='enable-admission-plugins=NodeRestriction,PodSecurityPolicy,NamespaceLifecycle,ServiceAccount' --kube-controller-manager-arg='terminated-pod-gc-threshold=10' --kube-controller-manager-arg='use-service-account-credentials=true' --kubelet-arg='streaming-connection-idle-timeout=5m' --kubelet-arg='make-iptables-util-chains=true'"

Sorry for the confusion. this is the actual code which k3s is ignoring.