diff --git a/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh b/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh
index 505f2f5a7..0aa1895f2 100755
--- a/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh
+++ b/projects/kubernetes/kubernetes/kubeadm-init.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
+touch /var/lib/kubeadm/.kubeadm-init.sh-started
 kubeadm init --skip-preflight-checks --kubernetes-version @KUBERNETES_VERSION@ $@
 for i in /etc/kubeadm/kube-system.init/*.yaml ; do
     if [ -e "$i" ] ; then
@@ -11,3 +12,4 @@ if [ -f /var/config/kubeadm/untaint-master ] ; then
     echo "Removing \"node-role.kubernetes.io/master\" taint from all nodes"
     kubectl taint nodes --all node-role.kubernetes.io/master-
 fi
+touch /var/lib/kubeadm/.kubeadm-init.sh-finished