First I followed the wiki, which I learned only after doing all the steps and comparing with the gist that the wiki is out of date

and now everything is messed up. I think I'm going to have to fully rebuild the thing because there are a bunch of errors and the netmaker UI isn't reflecting node health. It shows everything as healthy

[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:49:51 mq-ping error getting node:  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:49:51 error reading database  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:50:51 mq-ping error getting node:  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:50:51 error reading database  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:51:51 mq-ping error getting node:  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:51:51 error reading database  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:52:51 mq-ping error getting node:  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:52:51 error reading database  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:53:33 updated node 43a0afc3-7c7d-4dbd-9160-6cdefa48d7c8 netclient-lax1
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:53:51 mq-ping error getting node:  no result found
[netmaker] 2022-10-19 04:53:51 error reading database  no result found

also access keys seem to disappear on first use, regardless of how many uses I specify