kubeadm init hangs

I'm just following the first lab to get it all installs and it hangs at the init stage:

root@ubuntu01:~# kubeadm init --config=kubeadm-config.yaml --upload-certs
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.26.1
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks
[preflight] Pulling images required for setting up a Kubernetes cluster
[preflight] This might take a minute or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection
[preflight] You can also perform this action in beforehand using 'kubeadm config images pull'

I'm running it on a Vmware with 32GB mem, 8CPU and ubuntu 22.04. I am behind a proxy though that is configured correctly and everything has worked until this point.

root@ubuntu01:~# env | grep proxy
no_proxy=10.8../24,10.96.0.0/12,127.0.0,192.168.0.0/16
https_proxy=http://****************:8080
http_proxy=http://*****************:8080

Containerd is up and running:

root@ubuntu01:~# systemctl status containerd
● containerd.service - containerd container runtime
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/containerd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-08-24 12:06:32 UTC; 6min ago
Docs: https://containerd.io

Kubelet is not:

root@ubuntu01:~# systemctl status kubelet
● kubelet.service - kubelet: The Kubernetes Node Agent
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/kubelet.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d
└─10-kubeadm.conf
Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2023-08-24 12:13:10 UTC; 7s ago

Any ideas?