Okay, I went though the volumes and vol mounts only. - worked
then I added:
–audit-log-path=/var/log/prod-secrets.log
–audit-log-maxage=30
The api server came up okay.
Then I added the last line:
–audit-policy-file=/etc/kubernetes/prod-audit.yaml
And the server never came back up… the file /etc/kubernetes/prod-audit.yaml exists with the code provided by KodeKloud.