kubernetes/kops · error

error listing instance templates: %v

Error message

error listing instance templates: %v

What it means

Wraps the compute InstanceTemplates().List failure in FindInstanceTemplates, which locates a cluster's templates by cluster-name metadata. Fires when the list API call errors (permissions, quota, connectivity).

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gce/gce_cloud.go:384

		}

		ingresses = append(ingresses, fi.ApiIngressStatus{
			InternalEndpoint: internalEndpoint,
			IP:               forwardingRule.IPAddress,
		})
	}

	return ingresses, nil
}

// FindInstanceTemplates finds all instance templates that are associated with the current cluster
// It matches them by looking for instance metadata with key='cluster-name' and value of our cluster name
func FindInstanceTemplates(c GCECloud, clusterName string) ([]*compute.InstanceTemplate, error) {
	findClusterName := strings.TrimSpace(clusterName)

	ts, err := c.Compute().InstanceTemplates().List(context.Background(), c.Project())
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error listing instance templates: %v", err)
	}

	var matches []*compute.InstanceTemplate
	for _, t := range ts {
		if !gcemetadata.MetadataMatchesClusterName(findClusterName, t.Properties.Metadata) {
			continue
		}

		matches = append(matches, t)
	}

	return matches, nil
}

// logTokenInfo returns information about the active credential
func (c *gceCloudImplementation) getTokenInfo(ctx context.Context) (*oauth2.Tokeninfo, error) {
	tokenSource, err := google.DefaultTokenSource(ctx, compute.CloudPlatformScope)
	if err != nil {

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

1. Verify compute.instanceTemplates.list permission
2. Check API quota and network access
3. Retry after transient failures

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gce/gce_cloud.go:384 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/ecad58aa228b3768. Report an issue: GitHub.