spinnaker: Patch deployment fails: Cannot deserialize instance of com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.kubernetes.v2.description.manifest.KubernetesManifest

Issue Summary:

A patch deployment stage in a pipeline fails with this error shown in the Spinnaker UI:

Exception ( Monitor Patch )
Cannot deserialize instance of com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.kubernetes.v2.description.manifest.KubernetesManifest out of START_ARRAY token at [Source: UNKNOWN; line: -1, column: -1]

And here’s the clouddriver log output:

2019-01-04 10:45:55.889 ERROR 1 --- [ool-6-thread-35] c.n.s.c.o.DefaultOrchestrationProcessor  : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot deserialize instance of `com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.kubernetes.v2.description.manifest.KubernetesManifest` out of START_ARRAY token
 at [Source: UNKNOWN; line: -1, column: -1]
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._convert(ObjectMapper.java:3750)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.convertValue(ObjectMapper.java:3668)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.kubernetes.v2.op.manifest.KubernetesPatchManifestOperation.replaceArtifacts(KubernetesPatchManifestOperation.java:109)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.kubernetes.v2.op.manifest.KubernetesPatchManifestOperation.operate(KubernetesPatchManifestOperation.java:88)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.kubernetes.v2.op.manifest.KubernetesPatchManifestOperation.operate(KubernetesPatchManifestOperation.java:45)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.orchestration.AtomicOperation$operate.call(Unknown Source)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:47)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.orchestration.AtomicOperation$operate.call(Unknown Source)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.orchestration.DefaultOrchestrationProcessor$_process_closure1$_closure2.doCall(DefaultOrchestrationProcessor.groovy:89)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.orchestration.DefaultOrchestrationProcessor$_process_closure1$_closure2.doCall(DefaultOrchestrationProcessor.groovy)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:98)
	at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.ClosureMetaClass.invokeMethod(ClosureMetaClass.java:264)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1034)
	at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:418)
	at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:412)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.metrics.TimedCallable$ClosureWrapper.call(TimedCallable.groovy:55)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.metrics.TimedCallable.call(TimedCallable.groovy:82)
	at java_util_concurrent_Callable$call.call(Unknown Source)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.orchestration.DefaultOrchestrationProcessor$_process_closure1.doCall(DefaultOrchestrationProcessor.groovy:88)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.orchestration.DefaultOrchestrationProcessor$_process_closure1.doCall(DefaultOrchestrationProcessor.groovy)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:98)
	at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.ClosureMetaClass.invokeMethod(ClosureMetaClass.java:264)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1034)
	at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:418)
	at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:412)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.security.AuthenticatedRequest.lambda$propagate$0(AuthenticatedRequest.java:97)
	at com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.metrics.TimedCallable.call(TimedCallable.groovy:82)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize instance of `com.netflix.spinnaker.clouddriver.kubernetes.v2.description.manifest.KubernetesManifest` out of START_ARRAY token
 at [Source: UNKNOWN; line: -1, column: -1]
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException.from(MismatchedInputException.java:63)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.reportInputMismatch(DeserializationContext.java:1343)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleUnexpectedToken(DeserializationContext.java:1139)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleUnexpectedToken(DeserializationContext.java:1093)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.StdDeserializer._deserializeFromEmpty(StdDeserializer.java:600)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.MapDeserializer.deserialize(MapDeserializer.java:360)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.MapDeserializer.deserialize(MapDeserializer.java:29)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._convert(ObjectMapper.java:3745)
	... 40 more

Cloud Provider(s):

Kubernetes.

Environment:

Spinnaker installed by Helm Chart version 1.9.1.

Here’s the container image tags:

spin-clouddriver:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/clouddriver:4.1.0-20181211134536, gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/monitoring-daemon:0.10.0-20181207032510,
spin-deck:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/deck:2.6.0-20181213100452,
spin-echo:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/echo:2.2.1-20181217192627, gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/monitoring-daemon:0.10.0-20181207032510,
spin-front50:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/front50:0.14.0-20181207134351, gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/monitoring-daemon:0.10.0-20181207032510,
spin-gate:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/gate:1.4.0-20181217192627, gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/monitoring-daemon:0.10.0-20181207032510,
spin-igor:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/igor:1.0.0-20181207134351, gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/monitoring-daemon:0.10.0-20181207032510,
spin-orca:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/orca:2.0.0-20181212160734, gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/monitoring-daemon:0.10.0-20181207032510,
spin-rosco:  gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/rosco:0.8.1-20181207134351, gcr.io/spinnaker-marketplace/monitoring-daemon:0.10.0-20181207032510,

Feature Area:

Kuberntes, deployments, etc

Steps to Reproduce:

Trigger our deployment pipeline and wait for that stage to fail. This pipeline simply patches a deployment with a new docker image tag.