Once hosts are prepared, kubeadm init turns the first machine into a control plane node. It generates a certificate authority and certificates, writes kubeconfig files, creates static Pod manifests for the API server, etcd, scheduler and controller-manager, starts them through the kubelet, and installs CoreDNS and kube-proxy.
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