Yes, if you removed the master without tell it to transition the master role to another machine, you have to promote manually your current slave if your "old master" isn't there anymore

@pszelestey Hi, yes, we've pushed an initial commit and a few more here https://github.com/vatesfr/cluster-api-provider-vates/ it is moging every day. Ping us in Matrix/Discord devops if you want to chat live while trying