KubeADM for Kubernetes: Chicken and egg problem during setup, what am I doing wrong?

I tried running the kubeadm init command and checking the permissions on the file it can’t access.

[root@node1 pki]# ls -al /etc/kubernetes/pki/
total 60
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Jul  9 13:21 .
drwxr-x--x. 4 root root  125 Jul  9 13:21 ..
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1237 Jul  9 13:20 apiserver.crt

IDK what else it needs. :thinking: Tried the nuke:

[root@node1 pki]# chmod 777 /etc/kubernetes/pki/apiserver.crt /etc/kubernetes/pki/ /etc/kubernetes/
[root@node1 pki]# ls -al /etc/kubernetes/pki/
total 60
drwxrwxrwx. 3 root root 4096 Jul  9 13:21 .
drwxrwxrwx. 4 root root  125 Jul  9 13:21 ..
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 1237 Jul  9 13:20 apiserver.crt

Didn’t work. Still permission denied.