Hello everybody We are needing to use an AWS Load Balancer for our RKE2 cluster and we are facing an issue Rancher 2.8.4 and v1.28.9+rke2r1 cluster deployed on EC2 using "RKE2 Embedded" as the Cloud Provider (all of this is deployed using Terraform) We installed the

aws-load-balancer-controller

and sucessfully deployed an Ingress with the

<http://alb.ingress.kubernets.io/*|alb.ingress.kubernets.io/*>

annotations needed and its being created successfully in AWS but we are running into an issue, the Target Groups of the ALB are empty and looking into the

aws-load-balancer-controller

logs I see the following error

{
  "level": "error",
  "ts": "2024-06-18T17:08:35Z",
  "msg": "Reconciler error",
  "controller": "targetGroupBinding",
  "controllerGroup": "elbv2.k8s.aws",
  "controllerKind": "TargetGroupBinding",
  "TargetGroupBinding": {
    "name": "k8s-dev-nginx-d3026cf097",
    "namespace": "dev"
  },
  "namespace": "dev",
  "name": "k8s-dev-nginx-d3026cf097",
  "reconcileID": "32fc9c3b-09c8-41d5-9a4e-c09f4ee5a3d2",
  "error": "providerID <rke2://non-prod-worker-a-d92e9bb4-k7kpj> is invalid for EC2 instances, node: non-prod-worker-a-d92e9bb4-k7kpj"
}

As far as I understand, the

providerID

(rke2://non-prod-worker-a-d92e9bb4-k7kpj) of the nodes is not in the format that the

aws-load-balancer-controller

expect (aws://REGION/INSTANCE_ID) Now, taking a look into the documentation (https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/how-to-guides/new-user-guides/kubernetes-clusters-in-rancher-setup/set-up-cloud-providers/amazon#using-the-out-of-tree-aws-cloud-provider) and into the cluster creation UI and there are stuff that is no exactly clear to me 1) What is the difference between

aws

and

Amazon

as Cloud Providers for the cluster go 2) For now (finger crossed) we don't need more integration with Amazon that creating the ALB, which Cloud Provider is the easier one to setup up to get the correct

providerID

configured in the nodes? 3) If there is a Terraform example code would be great Thanks Alex