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@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ To start the cluster, we need to bootstrap the etcd cluster.
 This only has to be done for a single node.
 
 ```bash
-talosctl -n 192.168.0.10
+talosctl -n 192.168.0.10 bootstrap
 ```
 
 Finally, retrieve the kubeconfig, it will merge with `~/.kube/config`, if it exists.