kubernetes/kops · error

error waiting for IP Address: %v

Error message

error waiting for IP Address: %v

What it means

Wrapped error returned when cloud.WaitForOp fails after successfully submitting a GCE Addresses.Insert operation. The insert API call itself succeeded; the asynchronous regional operation transitioned to an error state (or polling failed), so the address may or may not exist in GCE.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gcetasks/address.go:190

		AddressType: fi.ValueOf(e.IPAddressType),
		Purpose:     fi.ValueOf(e.Purpose),
		Region:      cloud.Region(),
	}

	if e.Subnetwork != nil {
		addr.Subnetwork = e.Subnetwork.URL(t.Cloud.Project(), t.Cloud.Region())
	}

	if a == nil {
		klog.V(2).Infof("Creating Address: %q", addr.Name)

		op, err := cloud.Compute().Addresses().Insert(cloud.Project(), cloud.Region(), addr)
		if err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("error creating IP Address: %v", err)
		}

		if err := cloud.WaitForOp(op); err != nil {
			return fmt.Errorf("error waiting for IP Address: %v", err)
		}
	} else {
		return fmt.Errorf("cannot apply changes to IP Address: %v", changes)
	}

	return nil
}

type terraformAddress struct {
	Name        *string                  `cty:"name"`
	AddressType *string                  `cty:"address_type"`
	Purpose     *string                  `cty:"purpose"`
	Subnetwork  *terraformWriter.Literal `cty:"subnetwork"`
}

func (_ *Address) RenderTerraform(t *terraform.TerraformTarget, a, e, changes *Address) error {
	tf := &terraformAddress{
		Name:        e.Name,

View on GitHub (pinned to 4c8573c808)

Solutions

1. Inspect the underlying operation error (quota exceeded, invalid address, name conflict) in the %v detail
2. Verify whether the address was actually created with `gcloud compute addresses describe` before re-running
3. Address quota or permission issues reported by the operation, then re-run the kOps apply

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/gcetasks/address.go:190 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/2f3efc517912b2d7. Report an issue: GitHub.