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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+echo "Provide the public DNS name or IP address of the k3s server:"
+read -r server_url
+
+workdir = $(mktemp -d /tmp/encode-k3s-yaml.XXXXXX)
+cd $workdir
+echo "Working directory: $workdir"
+pwd
+cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ./
+
+# update server url
+sed -i "s/127.0.0.1/$server_url/g" k3s.yaml
+
+# append tls-server-name: kubernetes after 'server:' line
+sed -i "/server:/a\ \ \ \ tls-server-name: kubernetes" k3s.yaml
+
+# base64 encode the yaml file
+base64 -w 0 -i k3s.yaml > k3s.yaml.b64
+
+echo "Base64 encoded k3s.yaml for use as K3S_YAML for deployment scripts:"
+cat k3s.yaml.b64
+