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Security Group behaviour in Rancher-provisioned EKS clusters

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Environment

- Rancher v2.6.7+
- Rancher-provisioned EKS clusters
, with user-specified AWS Security Group configuration

Situation

- Provision an EKS cluster from Rancher, adding additional user-specified AWS Security Groups to the cluster configuration

Resolution

The following is applied to the AWS Security Group configuration when provisioning an EKS cluster from Rancher.

1. If a user-specified Security Group is not set in the EKS cluster configuration within Rancher:
- The default Security Group is applied at the cluster level
- The default Security Group is applied to nodes in nodegroups without a Launch Template containing a Security Group configuration
- On any nodes in nodegroups with a Launch Template containing a Security Group configuration, the default Security Group is replaced by the Security Group configuration from the Launch Template

2. If a user-specified Security Group is set in the EKS cluster configuration within Rancher:
- The default Security Group and the user-specified Security Group are applied at the cluster level
- The default Security Group is applied to nodes in nodegroups without a Launch Template containing a Security Group configuration
- On any nodes in nodegroups with a Launch Template containing a Security Group configuration, the default Security Group is replaced by the Security Group configuration from the Launch Template

As a result of a bug, in Rancher v2.6.4 - v2.6.6, if any user-specified Security Groups were applied to the cluster, only these user-specified groups were applied to nodegroups without a Launch Template containing a Security Group configuration, potentially breaking communication between nodes and the cluster controlplane, as detailed in https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/38014. Any user on an affected version should upgrade to a later Rancher release.

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  • Document ID:000021299
  • Creation Date: 20-Dec-2023
  • Modified Date:25-Jan-2024
    • SUSE Rancher

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