diff --git a/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ConfigTemplate.yaml b/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ConfigTemplate.yaml
index c99c289da..5a48766de 100644
--- a/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ConfigTemplate.yaml
+++ b/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ConfigTemplate.yaml
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ spec:
           echo "node-ip: $(hostname -I | grep -oE 192\.168\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)" >> /etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml.d/capi-config.yaml
         - sed -i '/swap/d' /etc/fstab
         - swapoff -a
+        - hostnamectl set-hostname '{{ ds.meta_data.label }}' && hostname -F /etc/hostname
diff --git a/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ControlPlane.yaml b/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ControlPlane.yaml
index 9c1daf7cc..549be46c3 100644
--- a/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ControlPlane.yaml
+++ b/templates/flavors/rke2/rke2ControlPlane.yaml
@@ -37,4 +37,5 @@ spec:
       echo "node-ip: $(hostname -I | grep -oE 192\.168\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)" >> /etc/rancher/rke2/config.yaml.d/capi-config.yaml
     - sed -i '/swap/d' /etc/fstab
     - swapoff -a
+    - hostnamectl set-hostname '{{ ds.meta_data.label }}' && hostname -F /etc/hostname
   replicas: ${CONTROL_PLANE_MACHINE_COUNT}