@malcolmlewis1 Unbelievable. You know the issue. I didn’t apply the ssh key to the server, ssh-copy-id. I never considered that it still needed to apply the ssh-key in some other manner that would need to be used to access ITSELF. haha. Ok, its building just fine now.
however, I’m not able to use kubectl to view the nodes. when I run kubectl get nodes I get a connection refused. I’ll start digging into that.
thank you so much for your help.