Upon rebuilding, first node in inventory.yaml doesn't rejoin existing cluster. about homelab HOT 3 CLOSED

As an attempted workaround, I tried to adjust the inventory by moving the initial node to the bottom of the master list. Setup went through, but the result was unfortunately the same where the node appears to have created it's own cluster.

It sounds as if the token that is generated at provisioning might only be unique to the first node? I'm not sure. I'll likely be rebuilding later this evening.

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Moving the node to the bottom is the recommended method https://homelab.khuedoan.com/how-to-guides/add-or-delete-nodes (to replace a master node, remove it, then move it to the bottom and re-apply)

You can use a static cluster token and encrypt it with Ansible Vault, however I decided to create the token on the first node so we don't have to specify one. We can check to see if we have the token on other nodes, but this will quickly increase the complexity.

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Closing as it is working as intended, but I'm happy to review a PR if someone wants to take a crack at improving it (without providing a token manually).

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