tailscale/tailscale · error

failed to generate ingress policy: %w

Error message

failed to generate ingress policy: %w

What it means

createOrUpdate: generateIngressPolicy failed while building or fetching the ingress ValidatingAdmissionPolicy for the namespace. The wrapped error comes from policy generation/Get; the whole reconciliation is aborted and retried.

Source

Thrown at k8s-operator/reconciler/proxygrouppolicy/proxygrouppolicy.go:136

	}

	return reconcile.Result{}, nil
}

func (r *Reconciler) createOrUpdate(ctx context.Context, namespace string, policies tsapi.ProxyGroupPolicyList) (reconcile.Result, error) {
	ingressNames := set.Set[string]{}
	egressNames := set.Set[string]{}

	// If this namespace has multiple ProxyGroupPolicy resources, we'll reduce them down to just their distinct
	// egress/ingress names.
	for _, policy := range policies.Items {
		ingressNames.AddSlice(policy.Spec.Ingress)
		egressNames.AddSlice(policy.Spec.Egress)
	}

	ingress, err := r.generateIngressPolicy(ctx, namespace, ingressNames)
	if err != nil {
		return reconcile.Result{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to generate ingress policy: %w", err)
	}

	ingressBinding, err := r.generatePolicyBinding(ctx, namespace, ingress)
	if err != nil {
		return reconcile.Result{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to generate ingress policy binding: %w", err)
	}

	egress, err := r.generateEgressPolicy(ctx, namespace, egressNames)
	if err != nil {
		return reconcile.Result{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to generate egress policy: %w", err)
	}

	egressBinding, err := r.generatePolicyBinding(ctx, namespace, egress)
	if err != nil {
		return reconcile.Result{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to generate egress policy binding: %w", err)
	}

	objects := []client.Object{

View on GitHub (pinned to 0fd2f14deb)

Solutions

1. Inspect the ProxyGroup ingress spec for invalid values; see logs for the wrapped error.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at k8s-operator/reconciler/proxygrouppolicy/proxygrouppolicy.go:136 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of tailscale/tailscale@0fd2f14deb (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/59bc54c298fc88ed. Report an issue: GitHub.