kubernetes/kops · error

unable to find autoscale groups: %v

Error message

unable to find autoscale groups: %v

What it means

Wraps the DigitalOcean droplet-tag autoscale-group discovery failure in getCloudGroups: the API call listing instance groups (droplets by cluster tag) failed, so cloud instance groups cannot be built for rolling updates/validation.

Source

Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/do/cloud.go:410

		clusterKey = "events"
	default:
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not determine etcd cluster type for volume: %s", volumeName)
	}

	return &etcd.EtcdClusterSpec{
		ClusterKey: clusterKey,
		NodeName:   dropletName,
		NodeNames:  []string{dropletName},
	}, nil
}

func getCloudGroups(c *doCloudImplementation, cluster *kops.Cluster, instancegroups []*kops.InstanceGroup, warnUnmatched bool, nodes []v1.Node) (map[string]*cloudinstances.CloudInstanceGroup, error) {
	nodeMap := cloudinstances.GetNodeMap(nodes, cluster)

	groups := make(map[string]*cloudinstances.CloudInstanceGroup)
	instanceGroups, err := findInstanceGroups(c, cluster.ObjectMeta.Name)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to find autoscale groups: %v", err)
	}

	for _, doGroup := range instanceGroups {
		name := doGroup.InstanceGroupName

		instancegroup, err := matchInstanceGroup(name, cluster.ObjectMeta.Name, instancegroups)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error getting instance group for doGroup %q", name)
		}
		if instancegroup == nil {
			if warnUnmatched {
				klog.Warningf("Found doGroup with no corresponding instance group %q", name)
			}
			continue
		}

		groups[instancegroup.ObjectMeta.Name], err = buildCloudInstanceGroup(c, instancegroup, doGroup, nodeMap)
		if err != nil {

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Solutions

1. Check the DO API token and account access
2. Verify network connectivity to api.digitalocean.com
3. Inspect the wrapped error for the DO API response
4. Retry once transient API issues clear

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at upup/pkg/fi/cloudup/do/cloud.go:410 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/4d11bc29b5818262. Report an issue: GitHub.