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kops validate cluster: returns "cluster not found" even though cluster is healthy and kubectl works fine

I created a cluster using kops. It worked fine and the cluster is healthy. I can see my nodes using kubectl and have created some deployments and services. I tried adding a node using "kops edit ig nodes" and got an error "cluster not found". Now I get that error for all kops commands:

kops validate cluster
Using cluster from kubectl context: <clustername>

cluster "<clustername>" not found

So my question is: where does kops look for clusters and how do I configure it to see my cluster.

Solution

  • My KOPS_STATE_STORE environment variable got messed up. I corrected it to be the correct s3 bucket and everything is fine.

    export KOPS_STATE_STORE=s3://correctbucketname