What's the usual places to check when a node to be provisioned hangs in the state "`waiting for agent to check in and apply initial plan`"? The actual VM is running fine in Harvester, although I cannot login via console because there is no password set for any user.

you can get the SSH key through rancher, and login that way to the node to check logs.

You mean the ssh key which can be downloaded from the cluster node view? Not working. Which user do I need to supply with the ssh command? The one supplied in the cluster setup (the one for ssh access) is not working.

hmm, the one supplied should work. you could also use the

user-config

section in rancher to specify a default user and password (and ssh key).

I checked the cloudconfig of a node and found a ssh public key in there. But this and the downloaded public key are different. Should they match?