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CCM config `loadBalancer.securityListManagementMode` ignored

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Description

I am having an issue with the CCM LB Controller. Out of the possible values for the cloud-provider.yaml, loadBalancer.securityListManagementMode, the controller always reads None:

2025-06-05T15:14:03.894Z	INFO	oci/load_balancer_security_lists.go:95	Security list management mode: "None". Not managing security lists.	{"component": "cloud-controller-manager"}
2025-06-05T15:14:03.895Z	WARN	oci/util.go:175	oke resource tracking system tags are not present in cloud-config.yaml	{"component": "cloud-controller-manager", "loadBalancerName": "********-test/echoserver/2fa3eb61-6507-47a0-a4d7-6b3ac132f4ca", "serviceName": "echoserver", "loadBalancerType": "nlb", "serviceUid": "2fa3eb61-6507-47a0-a4d7-6b3ac132f4ca", "loadBalancerID": "ocid1.networkloadbalancer.oc1.iad..ddyq", "loadBalancerType": "nlb"}   

If I set it to an invalid value, the LBC crashes (as expected):

F0605 15:13:01.878708       1 main.go:82] Cloud provider could not be initialized: could not init cloud provider "oci": loadBalancer.securityListManagementMode: Invalid value: "Donkey": invalid security list management mode   

So I know it's reading my config secret properly.

Is there anything that would cause it not manage any of the security groups even though we set loadBalancer.securityListManagementMode: Frontend? The LoadBalancer is created ok but there is no security group attached so it doesn't pass traffic.

Note that if i add the annotation oci-network-load-balancer.oraclecloud.com/security-list-management-mode: "Frontend" I see in the CCM logs that this recognised for this specific instance of the LB, and the LB now passes traffic. However the OCI console for the LB still doesn't show any LB.

Should it be possible to set the default securityListManagementMode via the CCM config?

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Read oci/load_balancer_security_lists.go around line 95 and trace how cloud-provider.yaml's loadBalancer.securityListManagementMode is passed into the controller; compare it with the per-service annotation path described here. Done means a configured Frontend default is honored without an annotation and the resulting load balancer receives the expected security list.

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