kubernetes/kops · error

error getting PublicIPAddress for API Ingress Status: %w

Error message

error getting PublicIPAddress for API Ingress Status: %w

What it means

Listing public IP addresses failed while resolving the public IP of the API load balancer's frontend configuration. The load balancer exists, but its public IP resource could not be looked up.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/azure/azure_cloud.go:304

			for _, i := range lb.Properties.FrontendIPConfigurations {
				if i.Properties == nil {
					continue
				}
				switch lbSpec.Type {
				case kops.LoadBalancerTypeInternal:
					if i.Properties.PrivateIPAddress == nil {
						continue
					}
					ingresses = append(ingresses, fi.ApiIngressStatus{
						IP: *i.Properties.PrivateIPAddress,
					})
				case kops.LoadBalancerTypePublic:
					if i.Properties.PublicIPAddress == nil || i.Properties.PublicIPAddress.ID == nil {
						continue
					}
					pips, err := c.publicIPAddressesClient.List(context.TODO(), rg)
					if err != nil {
						return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting PublicIPAddress for API Ingress Status: %w", err)
					}
					for _, pip := range pips {
						if pip.ID == nil || pip.Properties == nil || pip.Properties.IPAddress == nil || *pip.ID != *i.Properties.PublicIPAddress.ID {
							continue
						}
						ingresses = append(ingresses, fi.ApiIngressStatus{
							IP: *pip.Properties.IPAddress,
						})
					}
				default:
					return nil, fmt.Errorf("unknown load balancer type: %q", lbSpec.Type)
				}
			}
		}
	} else {
		// Get scale sets in cluster resource group and find masters scale set
		scaleSets, err := c.vmscaleSetsClient.List(context.TODO(), rg)
		if err != nil {

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Solutions

1. Verify public IP resources exist in the cluster resource group
2. Check permissions for reading public IP addresses
3. Retry after transient ARM errors

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/azure/azure_cloud.go:304 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/b59e4760a436cdaf. Report an issue: GitHub.