Yup, when I said that I was half way there, I was trying to use ansible to deploy a nginx systemd unit on every node to load-balancing requests to API servers.

Yup, when I said that I was half way there, I was trying to use ansible to deploy a nginx systemd unit on every node to load-balancing requests to API servers. Many other distributions can do this with a static pod managed by local kubelet, but that's not possible in k3s. I know there are solutions to my problem, but I can either implement them by myself, or like you mentioned, I can just use a different distribution and not having these problems.