kubernetes/kops · error

error listing tags on %v: %v

Error message

error listing tags on %v: %v

What it means

DescribeTags failed with a non-retryable error (not an eventual-consistency class failure), so the tag-fetch loop aborted for the resource in %v. Fires on permission denied, invalid resource ID, or other hard EC2 API errors.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/awsup/aws_cloud.go:1232

		response, err := c.EC2().DescribeTags(ctx, request, func(o *ec2.Options) {
			o.RetryMaxAttempts = DescribeTagsMaxAttempts
		})
		if err != nil {
			if isTagsEventualConsistencyError(err) {
				if attempt > DescribeTagsMaxAttempts {
					return nil, fmt.Errorf("got retryable error while getting tags on %q, but retried too many times without success: %v", resourceID, err)
				}

				if (attempt % DescribeTagsLogInterval) == 0 {
					klog.Infof("waiting for eventual consistency while describing tags on %q", resourceID)
				}

				klog.V(2).Infof("will retry after encountering error getting tags on %q: %v", resourceID, err)
				time.Sleep(DescribeTagsRetryInterval)
				continue
			}

			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error listing tags on %v: %v", resourceID, err)
		}

		for _, tag := range response.Tags {
			tags[aws.ToString(tag.Key)] = aws.ToString(tag.Value)
		}

		return tags, nil
	}
}

// CreateTags will add tags to the specified resource, retrying up to MaxCreateTagsAttempts times if it hits an eventual-consistency type error
func (c *awsCloudImplementation) CreateTags(resourceID string, tags map[string]string) error {
	return createTags(c, resourceID, tags)
}

func createTags(c AWSCloud, resourceID string, tags map[string]string) error {
	if len(tags) == 0 {
		return nil

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

1. Check the wrapped error for auth failure and verify ec2:DescribeTags permission
2. Confirm the resource ID is valid and in the right region

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/awsup/aws_cloud.go:1232 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/881bb43b7d2555d5. Report an issue: GitHub.