Offline control plane recover

docs/recover-control-plane.md

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 To recover from broken nodes in the control plane use the "recover\-control\-plane.yml" playbook.
 
-* Backup what you can
-* Provision new nodes to replace the broken ones
-* Place the surviving nodes of the control plane first in the "etcd" and "kube\_control\_plane" groups
-* Add the new nodes below the surviving control plane nodes in the "etcd" and "kube\_control\_plane" groups
-
 Examples of what broken means in this context:
 
 * One or more bare metal node(s) suffer from unrecoverable hardware failure
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 ## Runbook
 
+* Backup what you can
+* Provision new nodes to replace the broken ones
 * Move any broken etcd nodes into the "broken\_etcd" group, make sure the "etcd\_member\_name" variable is set.
 * Move any broken control plane nodes into the "broken\_kube\_control\_plane" group.
+* Place the surviving nodes of the control plane first in the "etcd" and "kube\_control\_plane" groups
+* Add the new nodes below the surviving control plane nodes in the "etcd" and "kube\_control\_plane" groups
 
 Then run the playbook with ```--limit etcd,kube_control_plane``` and increase the number of ETCD retries by setting ```-e etcd_retries=10``` or something even larger. The amount of retries required is difficult to predict.
 
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 ## Caveats
 
 * The playbook has only been tested with fairly small etcd databases.
-* If your new control plane nodes have new ip addresses you may have to change settings in various places.
 * There may be disruptions while running the playbook.
 * There are absolutely no guarantees.
 

roles/recover_control_plane/etcd/tasks/main.yml

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   delegate_to: "{{ item }}"
   with_items: "{{ groups['broken_etcd'] }}"
   ignore_errors: true  # noqa ignore-errors
+  ignore_unreachable: true
   when:
     - groups['broken_etcd']
     - has_quorum