kubernetes/kops · error

error creating cloud instance group member: %v

Error message

error creating cloud instance group member: %v

What it means

Wraps per-member construction failure in buildCloudInstanceGroup: creating a CloudInstanceGroup member for one of the group's droplets failed (e.g. looking up the droplet by ID), so the group view would be incomplete and is aborted.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/do/cloud.go:527

	return instancegroup, nil
}

func buildCloudInstanceGroup(c *doCloudImplementation, ig *kops.InstanceGroup, g DOInstanceGroup, nodeMap map[string]*v1.Node) (*cloudinstances.CloudInstanceGroup, error) {
	cg := &cloudinstances.CloudInstanceGroup{
		HumanName:     g.InstanceGroupName,
		InstanceGroup: ig,
		Raw:           g,
		MinSize:       int(fi.ValueOf(ig.Spec.MinSize)),
		TargetSize:    int(fi.ValueOf(ig.Spec.MinSize)),
		MaxSize:       int(fi.ValueOf(ig.Spec.MaxSize)),
	}

	for _, member := range g.Members {

		// TODO use a hash of the godo.DropletCreateRequest fields to calculate the second parameter.
		_, err := cg.NewCloudInstance(member, cloudinstances.CloudInstanceStatusUpToDate, nodeMap[member])
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error creating cloud instance group member: %v", err)
		}
	}

	return cg, nil
}

func (c *doCloudImplementation) GetAllLoadBalancers() ([]godo.LoadBalancer, error) {
	allLoadBalancers := []godo.LoadBalancer{}

	opt := &godo.ListOptions{}
	for {
		lbs, resp, err := c.LoadBalancersService().List(context.TODO(), opt)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}

		allLoadBalancers = append(allLoadBalancers, lbs...)

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

1. Check the wrapped error for the failing droplet
2. Ensure all droplet IDs in the group are valid and readable
3. Retry after resolving DO API issues

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/do/cloud.go:527 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of kubernetes/kops@4c8573c808 (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/12c8fd3a5f2534e7. Report an issue: GitHub.