Getting error when installing kubefirst on WSL-2

[mwoodpatrick]

Which version of kubefirst are you using?

v2.4.6

Which cloud provider?

k3d (local)

Which DNS?

None specific

Which installation type?

CLI

Which distributed Git provider?

GitHub

Did you use a fork of gitops-template?

No

Which Operating System?

Linux

What is the issue?

When running:

kubefirst k3d create

I'm getting an error at the end of the installation (after Configuring Vault completed ok) I get:

Error: exit status 1

Any suggestions as to what the error is or how to debug, the log shows:

{"level":"info","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:55-07:00","message":" export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = *****"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m╷\u001b[0m\u001b[0m"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m│\u001b[0m \u001b[0m\u001b[1m\u001b[31mError: \u001b[0m\u001b[0m\u001b[1mUnsupported attribute\u001b[0m"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m│\u001b[0m \u001b[0m"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m│\u001b[0m \u001b[0m\u001b[0m on oidc-clients.tf line 43, in module "gitlab":"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m│\u001b[0m \u001b[0m 43: secret_mount_path = vault_mount.secret\u001b[4m.pat\u001b[0m\u001b[0m"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m│\u001b[0m \u001b[0m"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m│\u001b[0m \u001b[0mThis object has no argument, nested block, or exported attribute named"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m│\u001b[0m \u001b[0m"pat". Did you mean "path"?"}
{"level":"warn","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"ERR: \u001b[31m╵\u001b[0m\u001b[0m"}
{"level":"error","error":"exit status 1","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"command "/home/mwoodpatrick/.k1/kubefirst/tools/terraform" failed"}
{"level":"debug","time":"2024-05-05T15:11:57-07:00","message":"error: terraform apply -auto-approve for /home/mwoodpatrick/.k1/kubefirst/gitops/terraform/vault failed exit status 1"}

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[fharper]

@mwoodpatrick: thanks for reporting, I'll try to replicate the issue and keep you in the loop.

[fharper]

@mwoodpatrick: sorry for the delay, testing it now. Just to be sure, the report mentions GitHub, but the error has GitLab written in it. I will test both, but I want to be sure of what you tried when you get this error.

[fharper]

@mwoodpatrick: so I wasn't able to replicate the issue with GitHub, but I will try GitLab now.

[mwoodpatrick]

I am using GitHub, any suggestions on the best way for me to debug this further so I can get some insight on where the error is happening?

[fharper]

Does this error happen again if you retry the same command?

If so, can you show me the output of kubectl get pods -A please.

[fharper]

Also, I don't think we change anything in k3d, but you can also try with the latest version 2.4.8 which is the one I used. I'm trying it one last time on another Linux system just to be sure.

[mwoodpatrick]

So I did a clean install with 2.4.8 and this time I got the error:

Error: unable to reach vault over https - this is likely due to the mkcert certificate store missing. please install it via /home/mwoodpatrick/.k1/kubefirst/tools/mkcert -install

Is this expected?

Also using this using this version I'm still seeing the other issue I reported a day or so ago:

Running kubefirst changes my stty settings #2176

[fharper]

Is this expected?

Yes, you need to install this. You can find more information about this needed installation step at https://docs.kubefirst.io/k3d/quick-start/install#install-the-ca-certificate-authority-of-mkcert-in-your-trusted-store

lso using this using this version I'm still seeing the other issue I reported a day or so ago

It make sense as we didn't tackle this bug yet, but the team has been notified and I was able to reproduce.

[mwoodpatrick]

I'm running on "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" so I don't have brew but installed mkcert using:

sudo apt install mkcert libnss3-tools
mkcert -install

Including the additional steps for Windows with WSL

This was completed without issue and I was able to get further running:

kubefirst k3d create

This did install the k3d clusters and argo but did hit some issues see log

Log shows:

Hit error Unsupported attribute

Running:

/home/mwoodpatrick/.k1/kubefirst/tools/terraform validate

reports:

Success! The configuration is valid.

[mwoodpatrick]

I found my problem (I forgot to export my GITHUB_TOKEN), it would be good if the command checked to see if it was set.

[fharper]

It is supposed to detect it, and still working on macOS. Let me try on WSL2 with Debian.

[fharper]

I tried on Debian, and it is showing the following screen when I didn't have the environment variable set.

So since you were able to crate a cluster properly, and I cannot reproduce the token one, I'll close this issue.

If you encounter the same issue about the token in the future, create a new issue so it will be easier to follow as this one was about multiple things.