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This is great. Does anyone have guides on how to do the cluster creation bootstrap on public clouds where you don't get a known DNS name ahead of time and master nodes may come and go? Ie I want to bake an AMI and create an ASG so that we can turn it on and it will self cluster, create certs, etc and can add and remove nodes at the whim of the ASG.

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We haven't open sourced how we do this yet... we have an MVP way of doing it by using Ansible to provision the NUCs, and nmap (please don't laugh!) so that they can find each other on a specific virtual network at the restaurants.

We're replacing a lot of these solutions with "better ways" over the next weeks and months, but I'd be happy to share how we went about it. You can contact me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebrhurd/

The biggest key was that we use RKE for the clustering/certs on bare metal. That's definitely our secret sauce (pun intended).

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