kubernetes/kops · error

failed to get server %s: %w

Error message

failed to get server %s: %w

What it means

After parsing the id, getServer calls the Scaleway instance API GetServer. If the API call errors or returns nil server, the error is wrapped as 'failed to get server <id>'. This indicates the server could not be retrieved from the Scaleway API.

Source

Thrown at pkg/nodeidentity/scaleway/identify.go:150

// stringKeyFunc is a string as cache key function
func stringKeyFunc(obj interface{}) (string, error) {
	key := obj.(*nodeidentity.Info).InstanceID
	return key, nil
}

// getServer queries Scaleway for the server with the specified ID, returning an error if not found
func (i *nodeIdentifier) getServer(ctx context.Context, id string) (*instance.Server, error) {
	api := instance.NewAPI(i.client)
	uuid := strings.Split(id, "/")
	if len(uuid) != 3 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unexpected format for server id %s", id)
	}
	server, err := api.GetServer(&instance.GetServerRequest{
		ServerID: uuid[2],
		Zone:     scw.Zone(uuid[1]),
	}, scw.WithContext(ctx))
	if err != nil || server == nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to get server %s: %w", id, err)
	}

	return server.Server, nil
}

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Solutions

1. Inspect the wrapped cause (%w) for the underlying Scaleway API error and fix per its message
2. Verify Scaleway credentials (access key, secret key, organization/project) in the environment/config
3. Confirm the zone and server UUID in the provider id are correct and the server still exists
4. Retry after checking Scaleway status page if it's a transient API/network failure

server, err := getServer(ctx, id)
if err != nil {
    var apiErr *scw.Error
    if errors.As(err, &apiErr) && apiErr.StatusCode == http.StatusNotFound {
        // server deleted; stop retrying
        return ErrServerGone
    }
    // transient: credentials, network, throttling
    return fmt.Errorf("retrying server lookup: %w", err)
}

When it happens

Trigger: Scaleway API returns an error (invalid credentials, wrong zone, server not found/deleted, rate limiting, network failure) or GetServer returns a nil server for the given ServerID/Zone.

Common situations: Server terminated between event and lookup; wrong zone segment in the provider id; expired/missing Scaleway credentials (access key/secret key); Scaleway API outage or throttling.

Related errors

• failed to get server %s: %w
• failed to get IP for server %q: %w
• listing DNS records named %q in zone %q: %w
• updating DNS record %q (%s): %w
• creating DNS record %q in zone %q: %w

AI-assisted analysis of kubernetes/kops@4c8573c808 (2026-09-05). Data as JSON: /api/errors/5b57ce8cc1948233. Report an issue: GitHub.