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+It should not be necessary to deploy these files as, ostensibly, they are
+configured to be auto-deployed on the nodes at startup time.
+
+nodes.yaml contains things like annotations for the nodes and other similar
+hubub that makes the code deploy in a friendly manner.
+
+operator-oauth.yaml includes the secrets that need to be defined before the
+tailscale operator can be deployed. But, of course, it also needs things like
+the external-secrets helm chart before it is fully deployed in the proper
+manner. There is a little bit of a chicken and egg type of problem here, but
+if you just keep applying everyting, over and over, it will eventually be
+installed and configured correctly.