[Release-1.29] - rke2 ingress upgrade fails 1.31.4 -> 1.31.5

[brandond]

Backport fix for rke2 ingress upgrade fails 1.31.4 -> 1.31.5

• rke2 ingress upgrade fails 1.31.4 -> 1.31.5 #7652

[fmoral2]

Validated on Version:

-$ rke2 version v1.29.14+dev.f2d44443 (f2d4444392cbc09cc050c81a3e996828bca3e067)

Environment Details

Infrastructure
Cloud EC2 instance

Node(s) CPU architecture, OS, and Version:
NAME="SLES"
VERSION="15-SP5"
VERSION_ID="15.5"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5"
ID="sles"
ID_LIKE="suse"

Cluster Configuration:
1 node servers

Steps to validate the fix

1. Install rke2
2. Ensure cluster is up
3. Update /var/lib/rancher/rke2/server/manifests/rke2-ingress-nginx.yaml with defaultBackend.enabled: "true"
4. Ensure helm-install-rke2-ingress-nginx-* pod is in Completed state

Validation Results:

   
   ~$ rke2 -v
rke2 version v1.29.14+dev.f2d44443 (f2d4444392cbc09cc050c81a3e996828bca3e067)
go version go1.22.12 X:boringcrypto



~$  helm list --all-namespaces | grep rke2-ingress
rke2-ingress-nginx          	kube-system	1       	2025-02-14 11:18:30.661738134 +0000 UTC	deployed	rke2-ingress-nginx-4.12.004         	1.12.0
 

update /var/lib/rancher/rke2/server/manifests/rke2-ingress-nginx.yaml with defaultBackend.enabled: "true"

 
spec:
  valuesContent: |-
    defaultBackend:
      enabled: true
      autoscaling:
        enabled: false
      image:
        repository: cerit.io/cerit/default-backend
        tag: "v1.1"
        readOnlyRootFilesystem: false
 


 
 

 /$ kubectl get pods -A | grep rke2-ingress
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-ingress-nginx-pvtbj                   0/1     Completed   0          54s
kube-system   rke2-ingress-nginx-controller-7l7dj                     1/1     Running     0          33s
kube-system   rke2-ingress-nginx-defaultbackend-66b6588745-8zv98      1/1     Running     0          45s


$ kgn
NAME               STATUS   ROLES                       AGE   VERSION
ip-   Ready    control-plane,etcd,master   54m   v1.29.14+rke2r1
ec2-user@ip-172-31-25-217:/$ kgp -A
NAMESPACE     NAME                                                    READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system   cloud-controller-manager-ip-               1/1     Running     0          54m
kube-system   etcd-ip-                                   1/1     Running     0          53m
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-canal-j4f4g                           0/1     Completed   0          54m
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-coredns-2l2hc                         0/1     Completed   0          54m
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-ingress-nginx-pvtbj                   0/1     Completed   0          108s
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-metrics-server-6sb9n                  0/1     Completed   0          54m
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-runtimeclasses-fzk6m                  0/1     Completed   0          54m
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-snapshot-controller-crd-9zv7b         0/1     Completed   0          54m
kube-system   helm-install-rke2-snapshot-controller-kbktr             0/1     Completed   0          54m
kube-system   kube-apiserver-ip-                         1/1     Running     0          54m
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-ip-                1/1     Running     0          54m
kube-system   kube-proxy-ip-                             1/1     Running     0          42m
kube-system   kube-scheduler-ip-                         1/1     Running     0          54m
kube-system   rke2-canal-269vp                                        2/2     Running     0          54m
kube-system   rke2-coredns-rke2-coredns-58664888cf-5ctwd              1/1     Running     0          54m
kube-system   rke2-coredns-rke2-coredns-autoscaler-7dfbb46d5d-l6j8l   1/1     Running     0          54m
kube-system   rke2-ingress-nginx-controller-7l7dj                     1/1     Running     0          87s
kube-system   rke2-ingress-nginx-defaultbackend-66b6588745-8zv98      1/1     Running     0          99s
kube-system   rke2-metrics-server-8599b78c6d-n7knv                    1/1     Running     0          53m
kube-system   rke2-snapshot-controller-55d765465-j7tml                1/1     Running     0          53m


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