kubernetes/kops · error

error getting ingress status: %v

Error message

error getting ingress status: %v

What it means

Describing the load balancer (ingress) status to discover the API endpoint failed while building kubeconfig; a cloud API error (permissions, throttling, or the LB not yet existing) for the cluster's ELB/NLB.

Source

Thrown at pkg/kubeconfig/create_kubecfg.go:105

	var server string
	if options.OverrideAPIServer != "" {
		server = options.OverrideAPIServer
	} else if options.Internal {
		server = "https://" + cluster.APIInternalName()
	} else {
		if cluster.Spec.API.PublicName != "" {
			server = "https://" + wrapIPv6Address(cluster.Spec.API.PublicName)
		} else {
			server = "https://api." + clusterName
		}

		// If a load balancer exists we use it, except for when an SSL certificate is set.
		// This should avoid a lot of pain with DNS pre-creation.
		if cluster.Spec.API.LoadBalancer != nil && (cluster.Spec.API.LoadBalancer.SSLCertificate == "" || options.Admin != 0) {
			ingresses, err := cloud.GetApiIngressStatus(cluster)
			if err != nil {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting ingress status: %v", err)
			}

			var targets []string

			for _, useInternalEndpoint := range []bool{false, true} {
				for _, ingress := range ingresses {
					if !useInternalEndpoint && ingress.InternalEndpoint {
						continue
					}
					if ingress.Hostname != "" {
						targets = append(targets, ingress.Hostname)
					}
					if ingress.IP != "" {
						targets = append(targets, ingress.IP)
					}
				}
				if len(targets) > 0 {
					// Prefer external addresses

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

1. Verify cloud credentials can describe load balancers
2. Check for cloud API throttling and retry
3. Use the --api-server override or wait for the LB if the cluster is mid-create

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at pkg/kubeconfig/create_kubecfg.go:105 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/c4cf7aa15ddc34d8. Report an issue: GitHub.