The distribution is RKE2 with the Cilium CNI. Nodes have no public IPs — all traffic enters and leaves through the gateway, and the firewall on the gateway decides what gets in.
The cluster’s Nodes tab shows each role in its own section — Gateway (with the floating public IP), Control plane, Storage and Workers — with internal IPs, per-node CPU/memory and kubelet status:
Lifecycle states
A cluster’sstatus moves through: pending → deploying → running, with warning for degraded conditions (details in the status message), failed when provisioning could not complete (all infrastructure is cleaned up automatically and nothing bills), and deleting / delete_failed during teardown. The ready flag is the simple version: true means running with no pool mid-operation.