aws load-balancer is not registered with instances

Question

I use kubeadm to launch cluster on AWS. I can successfully create a load balancer on AWS by using kubectl, bu

Answer 1

In my case - the problem was missing the option --cloud-provider=aws

After I placed the following in /etc/default/kubelet (via terraform in my case ) and redeployed my nodes, everything worked

/etc/default/kubelet

KUBELET_EXTRA_ARGS='--cloud-provider=aws'

Answer 2

In My case the issue was with the worker nodes not getting the providerId assigned properly.

I managed to patch the node like - kubectl patch node ip-xxxxx.ap-southeast-2.compute.internal -p '{"spec":{"providerID":"aws:///ap-southeast-2a/i-0xxxxx"}}'

to add the ProviderID. And then when i deployed the service . The ELB got created. the node group got added and end to end it worked. This is not a straight forward answer . But until i find a better solution let remain here