K3s workers - k3s-agent.service or k3s-node.service

k3s, k3OS, and k3d
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Which SystemD service should exist and run on a k3s 1.29.0 worker node? I was surprised that I had nodes where both services tried to run…

As long as k3s-agent.service ran I had

18m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
18m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
18m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
18m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
17m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
17m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
17m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
17m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
17m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
17m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
17m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
16m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
16m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
16m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
16m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
16m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
16m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
15m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
15m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
14m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
14m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
14m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
14m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
14m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
13m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
13m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
13m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
13m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
13m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.
13m         Normal    Starting              node/tk3sw002   Starting kubelet.

filling up K8s events.