[Release-1.29] - rke2 server process shows up as rke2 agent in process list

[brandond]

Backport fix for rke2 server process shows up as rke2 agent in process list

• rke2 server process shows up as rke2 agent in process list #6430

[ShylajaDevadiga]

Validated using rke2 v1.29.8-rc1+rke2r1

Environment Details

Infrastructure
Cloud EC2 instance

Node(s) CPU architecture, OS, and Version:

ec2-user@ip-172-31-5-213:~> cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES"
VERSION="15-SP5"
VERSION_ID="15.5"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5"

Cluster Configuration:
Two node, 1 server 1 agent

Config.yaml:

cat /etc/rancher/rke2/config,yaml
write-kubeconfig-mode: "0644"

Steps to reproduce the issue and validate the fix

1. Copy config.yaml
2. Install rke2

Reproduction results :

ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-127:~> sudo /usr/local/bin/rke2 -v
rke2 version v1.29.7+rke2r1 (1ec1285b040816955f38d719a4052570d4090580)
go version go1.22.5 X:boringcrypto
ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-127:~> kubectl get nodes
NAME                                         STATUS   ROLES                       AGE   VERSION
ip-172-31-8-104.us-east-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>                      27m   v1.29.7+rke2r1
ip-172-31-9-127.us-east-2.compute.internal   Ready    control-plane,etcd,master   30m   v1.29.7+rke2r1

ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-127:~> ps -ef|grep "rke2 server"|grep -v grep

ec2-user@ip-172-31-9-127:~> ps -ef|grep "rke2 agent"|grep -v grep
root      2525     1  5 05:04 ?        00:01:38 /usr/local/bin/rke2 agent

Validation results:

ec2-user@ip-172-31-5-213:~> sudo /usr/local/bin/rke2 -v
rke2 version v1.29.8-rc1+rke2r1 (c65abe03a32406188d9ec795506b679a211272c3)
go version go1.22.5 X:boringcrypto

ec2-user@ip-172-31-5-213:~> kubectl get nodes
NAME                                          STATUS   ROLES                       AGE   VERSION
ip-172-31-15-113.us-east-2.compute.internal   Ready    <none>                      34m   v1.29.8+rke2r1
ip-172-31-5-213.us-east-2.compute.internal    Ready    control-plane,etcd,master   37m   v1.29.8+rke2r1

ec2-user@ip-172-31-5-213:~> ps -ef|grep "rke2 server"|grep -v grep
root      2524     1  3 05:04 ?        00:01:17 /usr/local/bin/rke2 server

ec2-user@ip-172-31-5-213:~> ps -ef|grep "rke2 agent"|grep -v grep