kubernetes/kops · error

error parsing object in manifest: %v

Error message

error parsing object in manifest: %v

What it means

A document in the manifest decoded as YAML but failed deserialization into a typed Kubernetes object: typically an unknown or misspelled apiVersion/kind, or fields that do not match the scheme's schema.

Source

Thrown at pkg/model/manifests.go:51

	decoder := yaml.NewYAMLOrJSONDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data), 4096)
	deser := scheme.Codecs.UniversalDeserializer()

	var objects []runtime.Object

	for {
		ext := runtime.RawExtension{}
		if err := decoder.Decode(&ext); err != nil {
			if err == io.EOF {
				break
			}
			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s", string(data))
			klog.Infof("manifest: %s", string(data))
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error parsing manifest: %v", err)
		}

		obj, _, err := deser.Decode([]byte(ext.Raw), nil, nil)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error parsing object in manifest: %v", err)
		}

		objects = append(objects, obj)
	}

	return objects, nil
}

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Solutions

1. Verify apiVersion and kind of the failing object against the Kubernetes API
2. Ensure the manifest matches the object versions supported by the kOps version in use
3. Simplify the object to minimal fields and re-add progressively to isolate the offending field

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at pkg/model/manifests.go:51 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/034488935b746641. Report an issue: GitHub.