Linkerd version 2025.3.1 and RKE2 k8s 1.34

Linkerd General Discussion
1

Hello,

Have upgraded RKE2 from 1.33 to 1.34 after which linkerd control plane components (destination/identity/proxy-injector are not starting up

plugin type=“linkerd-cni” name=“linkerd-cni” failed (add): exit status 127

Tried Upgrading linkerd version , but still same issue

All configs looks good

Please could you guide me on the issue

ls -lrt /opt/cni/bin/linkerd-cni

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36212920 Apr 17 17:15 /opt/cni/bin/linkerd-cni

ldd /opt/cni/bin/linkerd-cni

not a dynamic executable

/opt/cni/bin/linkerd-cni

{
“code”: 4,
“msg”: “required env variables [CNI_COMMAND] missing”

2

Hey @hearysunny, thanks for bringing this one up! Noting that 2025.3.1 is over a year old at this point; have you had a chance to try a more recent Linkerd? In either case, it would be lovely to see a more complete log of the startup attempt…