kubernetes/kops · error

error deleting instance: %w

Error message

error deleting instance: %w

What it means

In RenderScw's scale-down path, GetClusterServers failed to list the instance group's servers before deleting the surplus instances. No deletion has occurred; the wrapped error is the ListServers SDK failure for the cluster/instance-group tag filter.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/scalewaytasks/instance.go:292

			return fmt.Errorf("error powering on instance %s of group %q: %w", srv.Server.ID, fi.ValueOf(expected.Name), err)
		}

		// We wait for the instance to be ready
		_, err = instanceService.WaitForServer(&instance.WaitForServerRequest{
			ServerID: srv.Server.ID,
			Zone:     zone,
		})
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("error waiting for instance %s of group %q: %w", srv.Server.ID, fi.ValueOf(expected.Name), err)
		}
	}

	// If newInstanceCount < 0, we need to delete instances of this group
	if newInstanceCount < 0 {

		igInstances, err := t.Cloud.GetClusterServers(t.Cloud.ClusterName(actual.Tags), actual.Name)
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("error deleting instance: %w", err)
		}

		for i := 0; i > newInstanceCount; i-- {
			toDelete := igInstances[i*-1]
			err = t.Cloud.DeleteServer(toDelete)
			if err != nil {
				return fmt.Errorf("error deleting instance of group %s: %w", toDelete.Name, err)
			}
		}
	}

	return nil
}

type terraformInstanceIP struct {
	Tags []string `cty:"tags"`
}

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

1. Inspect the wrapped error for the listing failure
2. Verify cluster tags and credentials
3. Retry the apply operation

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/scalewaytasks/instance.go:292 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/911cce3dc7d9bbb7. Report an issue: GitHub.