kind: Error: secret "memberlist" not found

I’m trying to deploy the new metallb release, and after following the steps:

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/metallb/v0.9.3/manifests/namespace.yaml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/metallb/v0.9.3/manifests/metallb.yaml
# On first install only
kubectl create secret generic -n metallb-system memberlist --from-literal=secretkey="$(openssl rand -base64 128)"

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces

Returning the following error:

NAMESPACE            NAME                                          READY   STATUS                       RESTARTS   AGE
default              traefik-6588bbf6-dvd6z                        1/1     Running                      0          4m13s
kube-system          coredns-6955765f44-krc8w                      1/1     Running                      0          5m56s
kube-system          coredns-6955765f44-n48jn                      1/1     Running                      0          5m56s
kube-system          etcd-local-control-plane                      1/1     Running                      0          6m10s
kube-system          kindnet-cs8w9                                 1/1     Running                      0          5m56s
kube-system          kube-apiserver-local-control-plane            1/1     Running                      0          6m10s
kube-system          kube-controller-manager-local-control-plane   1/1     Running                      0          6m10s
kube-system          kube-proxy-xxfzm                              1/1     Running                      0          5m56s
kube-system          kube-scheduler-local-control-plane            1/1     Running                      0          6m10s
local-path-storage   local-path-provisioner-7745554f7f-jdf72       1/1     Running                      0          5m56s
metallb-system       controller-5c9894b5cd-mzx8q                   1/1     Running                      0          5m48s
metallb-system       speaker-dhbtb                                 0/1     CreateContainerConfigError   0          5m10s

The pod logs:

$ kubectl describe pods -n metallb-system

Conditions:
  Type              Status
  Initialized       True
  Ready             False
  ContainersReady   False
  PodScheduled      True
Volumes:
  speaker-token-zpcrv:
    Type:        Secret (a volume populated by a Secret)
    SecretName:  speaker-token-zpcrv
    Optional:    false
QoS Class:       Guaranteed
Node-Selectors:  beta.kubernetes.io/os=linux
Tolerations:     node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule
                 node.kubernetes.io/disk-pressure:NoSchedule
                 node.kubernetes.io/memory-pressure:NoSchedule
                 node.kubernetes.io/network-unavailable:NoSchedule
                 node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute
                 node.kubernetes.io/pid-pressure:NoSchedule
                 node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute
                 node.kubernetes.io/unschedulable:NoSchedule
Events:
  Type     Reason     Age                   From                          Message
  ----     ------     ----                  ----                          -------
  Normal   Scheduled  8m4s                  default-scheduler             Successfully assigned metallb-system/speaker-dhbtb to local-control-plane
  Normal   Pulled     6m8s (x8 over 7m54s)  kubelet, local-control-plane  Successfully pulled image "metallb/speaker:v0.9.3"
  Warning  Failed     6m8s (x8 over 7m54s)  kubelet, local-control-plane  Error: secret "memberlist" not found
  Normal   Pulling    3m1s (x20 over 8m3s)  kubelet, local-control-plane  Pulling image "metallb/speaker:v0.9.3"

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 24 (13 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

this should fix it:

kubectl create secret generic -n metallb-system memberlist --from-literal=secretkey=“$(openssl rand -base64 128)”

+37

ucef29 on Apr 20, 2020

I can’t reproduce this either.

$ kubectl get po -A
NAMESPACE            NAME                                         READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
kube-system          coredns-6955765f44-glfdl                     1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system          coredns-6955765f44-mswc9                     1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system          etcd-kind-control-plane                      1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system          kindnet-lrbwm                                1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system          kube-apiserver-kind-control-plane            1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system          kube-controller-manager-kind-control-plane   1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system          kube-proxy-6rmq2                             1/1     Running   0          13m
kube-system          kube-scheduler-kind-control-plane            1/1     Running   0          13m
local-path-storage   local-path-provisioner-85445b74d4-f9ggg      1/1     Running   0          13m
metallb-system       controller-5c9894b5cd-v2z6q                  1/1     Running   0          11s
metallb-system       speaker-ln9md                                1/1     Running   0          11s

BenTheElder on Apr 7, 2020