Choose similar minimal install options for ubuntu (e.g. manually installed ssh server post install). This issue is looking more and more like a problem with CentOS 8.3 with k3s. Next I will install ...

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The dnf module looks like broken with Python 3.8 on CentOS 8 with the message : "msg": "Could not import the dnf python module using /usr/bin/python3 (3.8.0 (default ...