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Initialize HA control plane and upload certs for additional control-plane joins.

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Section: Cluster Bootstrap

Initialize with cert upload

bash
bash
kubeadm init --control-plane-endpoint=k8s.example.com --upload-certs
Explanation

Initialize HA control plane and upload certs for additional control-plane joins.

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