I am trying to use rules_k8s for Bazel to deploy to my Kubernetes cluster.

Thus I have this cloudbuild.yaml file, which is executed by Google Cloud Build:

steps:
  - name: gcr.io/cloud-builders/bazel
    args: ['run', '//:kubernetes.apply']

(//:kubernetes is just a k8s_objects)

On my local machine running bazel run //:kubernetes.apply works fine, but although the Google Cloud Build succeeds, it logs those errors. So the configuration is not applied to my Kubernetes cluster:

Target //:kubernetes.apply up-to-date:
  bazel-bin/kubernetes.apply
INFO: Elapsed time: 29.863s, Critical Path: 0.14s
INFO: 0 processes.
INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action
INFO: Running command line: bazel-bin/kubernetes.apply
INFO: Build Event Protocol files produced successfully.
INFO: Build completed successfully, 1 total action
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so projection_database_k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so projection_database_k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so event_store_k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so event_store_k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so event_store_k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so event_store_k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so event_store_k8s_deployment.apply cannot be executed.
kubectl toolchain was not properly configured so event_store_k8s_service.apply cannot be executed.

I also get a warning from the bazel cache:

DEBUG: /builder/home/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/eab0d61a99b6696edb3d2aff87b585e8/external/io_bazel_rules_k8s/toolchains/kubectl/kubectl_toolchain.bzl:28:9: No kubectl tool was found or built, executing run for rules_k8s targets might not work.

P.S.: I get the same errors when using //:kubernetes.create

My setup

Deployments

load("@io_bazel_rules_k8s//k8s:object.bzl", "k8s_object")
k8s_object(
  name = "k8s_deployment",
  kind = "deployment",
  cluster = "gke_cents-ideas_europe-west3-a_cents-ideas",
  template = ":ideas.deployment.yaml",
  images = {
    "gcr.io/cents-ideas/ideas:latest": ":image"
  },
)

Services

k8s_object(
  name = "k8s_service",
  kind = "service",
  cluster = "gke_cents-ideas_europe-west3-a_cents-ideas",
  template = ":ideas.service.yaml",
)

Aggregations

load("@io_bazel_rules_k8s//k8s:objects.bzl", "k8s_objects")
k8s_objects(
    name = "k8s",
    objects = [
      ":k8s_deployment",
      ":k8s_service",
    ]
)

Final composition

k8s_objects(
    name = "kubernetes",
    objects = [
        "//services/ideas:k8s",
        # ...
    ]
)

Update

I've now tried to make my own docker image with Bazel and kubectl:

FROM gcr.io/cloud-builders/bazel

RUN curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
RUN chmod +x ./kubectl
RUN mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

I pushed it to GCR and changed my cloudbuild.yaml to:

steps:
  - name: eu.gcr.io/cents-ideas/bazel-kubectl
    args: ["run", "//:kubernetes.apply"]

I firstly noticed, that the step took way longer than before. However at the end it throws an error:

$ /usr/local/bin/kubectl --kubeconfig= --cluster=gke_cents-ideas_europe-west3-a_cents-ideas --context= --user= apply -f -
error: cluster "gke_cents-ideas_europe-west3-a_cents-ideas" does not exist

Here is the full log.