Node not ready under microk8s

I have just started monitoring my experimental Microk8s cluster via Icinga2 (a topic for another day) and encountered a critcical error. One of my nodes is not ready. This isn't the first time I have run into this issue, but this time I decided to fix it the right way i.e. diagnose what went wrong and make the minimal correction required to fix it.

Although there is nothing earth shattering or difficult in this post, what was surprising is that the answer did not turn up early in the search results if you Google:

kubelet has stopped posting node status microk8s


A bit of thinking was required to figure out the solution. Hopefully this post will make the solution more easily found. Read More...