Introduction Before you move furniture into a new house, you install the locks, the cameras, and the gates. Kubernetes is no different, yet engineers constantly build clusters inside-out, treating security as a cosmetic bolt-on to be handled "later." Not this time. The order here is entirely deliberate. You don't move into a finished house and then start wondering about the security system—you wire the alarms while the building is still empty. With my 29-node RKE2 infrastructure full...