Our VMs Needed an Empty File, Not More CPU
A golden-image bake deleted /etc/machine-id. DHCP failed, cloud-init never finished, SSH never opened, and every symptom pointed at netplan. Plus a k3s hostname trap that stranded a pod for 14 hours.
A golden-image bake deleted /etc/machine-id. DHCP failed, cloud-init never finished, SSH never opened, and every symptom pointed at netplan. Plus a k3s hostname trap that stranded a pod for 14 hours.