kubernetes/kops · error

error listing zones: %v

Error message

error listing zones: %v

What it means

Wraps the compute Zones().List failure in allZones (GCE status discovery). Fires when enumerating zones for the project errors — permissions, quota, or connectivity — blocking etcd status discovery which is zone-scoped.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gce/status.go:34

package gce

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"strings"

	compute "google.golang.org/api/compute/v1"
	"k8s.io/klog/v2"
	"k8s.io/kops/pkg/apis/kops"
	"k8s.io/kops/pkg/etcd"
	"k8s.io/kops/upup/pkg/fi"
)

func (c *gceCloudImplementation) allZones() ([]string, error) {
	zones, err := c.compute.Zones().List(context.Background(), c.project)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error listing zones: %v", err)
	}

	var zoneNames []string
	for _, zone := range zones {
		regionName := LastComponent(zone.Region)
		if regionName == c.region {
			zoneNames = append(zoneNames, zone.Name)
		}
	}

	return zoneNames, nil
}

// FindClusterStatus discovers the status of the cluster, by inspecting the cloud objects
func (c *gceCloudImplementation) FindClusterStatus(cluster *kops.Cluster) (*kops.ClusterStatus, error) {
	etcdClusters, err := c.findEtcdStatus(cluster)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

1. Verify credentials and compute.zones.list permission
2. Check API quota
3. Retry after transient API failures

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gce/status.go:34 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/c17b1fe2dca477b0. Report an issue: GitHub.