Address top flaky tests (#12163) #10

Job	Run time
build / Build K3s (linux on ubuntu-latest)	6m 32s
Smoke Test (rocky-9)	4m 10s
Smoke Test (rocky-8)	8m 55s
Smoke Test (fedora)	3m 53s
Smoke Test (opensuse-leap)	3m 44s
Smoke Test (ubuntu-2404)	3m 29s
Smoke Test (centos-9)	4m 59s
	35m 42s

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