K
Q

kubeadm init failing while initializing a Kubernetes cluster

5/19/2021

execution logs from kubeadm init

  • VM OS Version - RHEL 8.2 (4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64)
  • Docker Version - 19.03.8
  • Kubernetes Version - 1.18.0
  • H/W Configuration - 4 CPU and 16 GB RAM (90% available)
<!-- -->
$$kubeadm init --kubernetes-version="v1.18.0" --pod-network-cidr="10.244.0.0/16"

W0519 21:08:48.180818  913499 configset.go:202] WARNING: kubeadm cannot validate component configs for API groups [kubelet.config.k8s.io kubeproxy.config.k8s.io]
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.18.0
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks
        [WARNING IsDockerSystemdCheck]: detected "cgroupfs" as the Docker cgroup driver. The recommended driver is "systemd". Please follow the guide at https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/cri/
        [WARNING FileExisting-socat]: socat not found in system path
[preflight] Pulling images required for setting up a Kubernetes cluster
[preflight] This might take a minute or two, depending on the speed of your internet connection
[preflight] You can also perform this action in beforehand using 'kubeadm config images pull'
[kubelet-start] Writing kubelet environment file with flags to file "/var/lib/kubelet/kubeadm-flags.env"
[kubelet-start] Writing kubelet configuration to file "/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml"
[kubelet-start] Starting the kubelet
[certs] Using certificateDir folder "/etc/kubernetes/pki"
[certs] Generating "ca" certificate and key
[certs] Generating "apiserver" certificate and key
[certs] apiserver serving cert is signed for DNS names [host422 kubernetes kubernetes.default kubernetes.default.svc kubernetes.default.svc.cluster.local] and IPs [10.96.0.1 10.180.40.75]
[certs] Generating "apiserver-kubelet-client" certificate and key
[certs] Generating "front-proxy-ca" certificate and key
[certs] Generating "front-proxy-client" certificate and key
[certs] Generating "etcd/ca" certificate and key
[certs] Generating "etcd/server" certificate and key
[certs] etcd/server serving cert is signed for DNS names [host422 localhost] and IPs [10.180.40.75 127.0.0.1 ::1]
[certs] Generating "etcd/peer" certificate and key
[certs] etcd/peer serving cert is signed for DNS names [host422 localhost] and IPs [10.180.40.75 127.0.0.1 ::1]
[certs] Generating "etcd/healthcheck-client" certificate and key
[certs] Generating "apiserver-etcd-client" certificate and key
[certs] Generating "sa" key and public key
[kubeconfig] Using kubeconfig folder "/etc/kubernetes"
[kubeconfig] Writing "admin.conf" kubeconfig file
[kubeconfig] Writing "kubelet.conf" kubeconfig file
[kubeconfig] Writing "controller-manager.conf" kubeconfig file
[kubeconfig] Writing "scheduler.conf" kubeconfig file
[control-plane] Using manifest folder "/etc/kubernetes/manifests"
[control-plane] Creating static Pod manifest for "kube-apiserver"
[control-plane] Creating static Pod manifest for "kube-controller-manager"
W0519 21:08:50.681218  913499 manifests.go:225] the default kube-apiserver authorization-mode is "Node,RBAC"; using "Node,RBAC"
[control-plane] Creating static Pod manifest for "kube-scheduler"
W0519 21:08:50.681948  913499 manifests.go:225] the default kube-apiserver authorization-mode is "Node,RBAC"; using "Node,RBAC"
[etcd] Creating static Pod manifest for local etcd in "/etc/kubernetes/manifests"
[wait-control-plane] Waiting for the kubelet to boot up the control plane as static Pods from directory "/etc/kubernetes/manifests". This can take up to 4m0s
[kubelet-check] Initial timeout of 40s passed.
        Unfortunately, an error has occurred:
                timed out waiting for the condition

        This error is likely caused by:
                - The kubelet is not running
                - The kubelet is unhealthy due to a misconfiguration of the node in some way (required cgroups disabled)

        If you are on a systemd-powered system, you can try to troubleshoot the error with the following commands:
                - 'systemctl status kubelet'
                - 'journalctl -xeu kubelet'

        Additionally, a control plane component may have crashed or exited when started by the container runtime.
        To troubleshoot, list all containers using your preferred container runtimes CLI.

        Here is one example how you may list all Kubernetes containers running in docker:
                - 'docker ps -a | grep kube | grep -v pause'
                Once you have found the failing container, you can inspect its logs with:
                - 'docker logs CONTAINERID'

error execution phase wait-control-plane: couldn't initialize a Kubernetes cluster

kubelet status (could see Setting node annotation to enable volume controller attach/detach getting continuously printed in the logs)

 kubelet.service - kubelet: The Kubernetes Node Agent
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d
           └─10-kubeadm.conf
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-05-19 21:08:48 IST; 17min ago
     Docs: https://kubernetes.io/docs/
 Main PID: 913672 (kubelet)
    Tasks: 18 (limit: 101228)
   Memory: 33.7M
   CGroup: /system.slice/kubelet.service
           └─913672 /home0/kubernetes/kubernetes/server/bin/kubelet --root-dir=/home0/kubernetes/workdir

May 19 21:24:49 InBlrbnc422 kubelet[913672]: I0519 21:24:49.379623  913672 kubelet_node_status.go:294] Setting node annotation to enable volume controller attach/detach
May 19 21:24:59 InBlrbnc422 kubelet[913672]: I0519 21:24:59.425035  913672 kubelet_node_status.go:294] Setting node annotation to enable volume controller attach/detach

(1) Executed swapoff -a
(2) Tried updating the cgroup driver of docker and kubelet to systemd but somehow kubelet is not picking up the changes.Hope kubeadm init should be able to run with driver version cgroupfs.
Kindly let me know what else I need to check.

UPDATE Stack

couldn't initialize a Kubernetes cluster
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/init.runWaitControlPlanePhase
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/init/waitcontrolplane.go:114
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow.(*Runner).Run.func1
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow/runner.go:234
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow.(*Runner).visitAll
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow/runner.go:422
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow.(*Runner).Run
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow/runner.go:207
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd.NewCmdInit.func1
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/init.go:147
k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:826
k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:914
k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:864
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app.Run
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/kubeadm.go:50
main.main
        _output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/kubeadm.go:25
runtime.main
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/proc.go:203
runtime.goexit
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1357
error execution phase wait-control-plane
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow.(*Runner).Run.func1
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow/runner.go:235
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow.(*Runner).visitAll
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow/runner.go:422
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow.(*Runner).Run
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/phases/workflow/runner.go:207
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd.NewCmdInit.func1
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/cmd/init.go:147
k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:826
k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:914
k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:864
k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app.Run
        /workspace/anago-v1.18.0-rc.1.21+8be33caaf953ac/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/_output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/kubeadm.go:50
main.main
        _output/dockerized/go/src/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/kubeadm.go:25
runtime.main
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/proc.go:203
runtime.goexit
        /usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1357
-- Balu R
kubeadm
kubelet
kubernetes

Similar Questions

Kubernetes on Windows for Production
.kube/config how to make it available to a rest service deployed in kubernetes
Is it possible for 2 containers inside a Pod to share the same Environment Variables?
Kubernetes with rewrite-target and kube-lego
Discovering Kubernetes Pod without specifying port number

1 Answer

5/19/2021

Normally this issue due to the misconfiguration of your VM or packages. Try to perform these steps and it should work for you (all commands needs to be run as root):

First, reset your kubeadm cluster by running the reset command and flush your iptables (to avoid any networking issue) :

kubeadm reset -f
iptables -F && iptables -t nat -F && iptables -t mangle -F && iptables -X

Second, you need to change your Docker cgroup driver to systemd (recommended CRI conf for kubernetes kubelet by default) then restart docker service:

cat > /etc/docker/daemon.json <<EOF
{
  "exec-opts": ["native.cgroupdriver=systemd"],
  "log-driver": "json-file",
  "log-opts": {
    "max-size": "100m"
  },
  "storage-driver": "overlay2"
}
EOF

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart docker

Finally you need to turn swapoff and restart and enable kubelet services 

swapoff -a
systemctl start kubelet

I did install kubernetes using the exact same packages but I am using Kubernetes v1.21.0 and it works fine for me maybe you should upgrade that version if doesn't for you.

-- Hajed.Kh
Source: StackOverflow