Boto3 get region during startup_fn()

[jicowan]

Question

I am calling a method in my startup_fn() that queries instance metadata to get the region. I use the region to create global environment variables for boto3 clients like ec2 and eks. When the code runs, I get an error that the region must be set. How should I handle this?

Here is the code I'm using in my startup_fn():

@kopf.on.startup()
async def startup_fn(logger, **kwarg):
    global region, eks, ec2, iam, cluster_name
    cluster_name, region = get_metadata()
    eks = client('eks', region_name=region)
    ec2 = client('ec2', region_name=region)
    iam = resource('iam')

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[jicowan]

When I moved the variable declarations out of the handler, it worked. I wanted to do it as part of the setup handler; I'm using the HTTP request library to call ec2 metadata: get_metadata(). I didn't want the operator to start until the region was set.

[nolar]

Can you please show the error and its stack trace?

[jicowan]

@nolar I will have to move the code back to the startup handler to get the trace. It basically said that the region was not set when it when I referenced the variables in the create handler.