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Your control plane pods were never scheduled by the scheduler. Explain static pods and why kubeadm leans on them.

Every control plane component depends on the API server, so who starts the API server? The bootstrap paradox sits at the heart of every cluster, and the kubelet plus a directory of files is the accepted way out.

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Every control plane component depends on the API server, so who starts the API server? The bootstrap paradox sits at the heart of every cluster, and the kubelet plus a directory of files is the accepted way out.

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