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Error initializing: context deadline exceeded Hashicorp Vault

We installed a 3 node Vault cluster in HA mode on a GKE cluster using this Git Repo.

Below is the status of Pods before initializing the vault.

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We logged into the vault-0 pod and tried initializing the vault but received the below error.

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Below is the status of the vault after we receive this error.

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Below is the status of the PVC.

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This shows that the vault has been initialized but we received an error instead of tokens and keys. We referred to this article for this error but no fate. Please help us to resolve this.

Solution

  • I think you're using it within a Private GKE Cluster.

    If so, and you are using the injector, you need to open the tcp:8080 port to the controlplane.

    Here is a little gcloud command to do it quickly.

    MASTER_GKE_RULE=$(gcloud compute firewall-rules list --filter="name~YOURCLUSTERNAME-[0-9a-z]*-master" --format=json  | jq -r '.[0] | .name')

gcloud compute firewall-rules update $MASTER_GKE_RULE --allow tcp:8080,tcp:10250,tcp:443,tcp:8443

    Don't forget to replace YOURCLUSTERNAME with the actual name of your cluster.

    If you wanna read more informations about this issue : Click here