Nodes failing to start correctly Google Kubernetes

Question

I am fairly new to Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and also Kubernetes.

I was trying to run Cassandra using Kubernetes Engine and GCP provides one-click support to create everything. Because I was just testing, I decided to stop all the VM to prevent unwanted billing after I successfully created the Cassandra.

Then when I tried to run it again, it doesn't work because somehow the nodes aren't created. I decided to delete everything from the Cassandra application and also the clusters. Now I tried to do the same thing and it always fails to create the nodes. I haven't even got to the Cassandra part because I need to create the clusters and the nodes first.

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No further error details, that's all I've got.

The clusters (Compute Engine/VM) are working fine and I've tried this three times with different regions and different names. But nothing works and the nodes keep failing. It doesn't mention why it fails. I couldn't create a running cluster because the error says that the nodes failed to start. I don't have any experience in Kubernetes and clusters.

Also, I couldn't contact support because you have to pay monthly for that and I am just doing my course project for my university course. Does anyone know what happened and how to fix it? Thanks!

Answer 1

This is most likely due to your cluster not being deleted correctly. I would manually create a cluster using this command [1], You will then be able to select it from the click to deploy menu.

[1] gcloud beta container clusters create CLUSTER_NAME \ --addons=HorizontalPodAutoscaling,HttpLoadBalancing,Istio,CloudRun \ --machine-type=n1-standard-4 \ --cluster-version=latest --zone=ZONE \ --enable-stackdriver-kubernetes \ --scopes cloud-platform