- Invalid header field value
- Runner coming up before network available
- Deployment fails on GKE due to webhooks
Problem
2020-11-12T22:17:30.693Z ERROR controller-runtime.controller Reconciler error
{
"controller": "runner",
"request": "actions-runner-system/runner-deployment-dk7q8-dk5c9",
"error": "failed to create registration token: Post \"https://api.github.com/orgs/$YOUR_ORG_HERE/actions/runners/registration-token\": net/http: invalid header field value \"Bearer $YOUR_TOKEN_HERE\\n\" for key Authorization"
}
Solution
Your base64'ed PAT token has a new line at the end, it needs to be created without a \n
added, either:
echo -n $TOKEN | base64
- Create the secret as described in the docs using the shell and documented flags
Problem
If you're running your action runners on a service mesh like Istio, you might have problems with runner configuration accompanied by logs like:
....
runner Starting Runner listener with startup type: service
runner Started listener process
runner An error occurred: Not configured
runner Runner listener exited with error code 2
runner Runner listener exit with retryable error, re-launch runner in 5 seconds.
....
This is because the istio-proxy
has not completed configuring itself when the
configuration script tries to communicate with the network.
More broadly, there are many other circumstances where the runner pod coming up first can cause issues.
Solution
Added originally to help users with older istio instances. Newer Istio instances can use Istio's
holdApplicationUntilProxyStarts
attribute (istio/istio#11130) to avoid having to delay starting up the runner. Please read the discussion in #592 for more information.
You can add a delay to the runner's entrypoint script by setting the STARTUP_DELAY_IN_SECONDS
environment variable for the runner pod. This will cause the script to sleep X seconds, this works with any runner kind.
apiVersion: actions.summerwind.dev/v1alpha1
kind: RunnerDeployment
metadata:
name: example-runnerdeployment-with-sleep
spec:
template:
spec:
env:
# This runner's entrypoint script will have a 5 seconds delay
# as a first action within the entrypoint script
- name: STARTUP_DELAY_IN_SECONDS
value: "5"
Problem
Due to GKEs firewall settings you may run into the following errors when trying to deploy runners on a private GKE cluster:
Internal error occurred: failed calling webhook "mutate.runner.actions.summerwind.dev":
Post https://webhook-service.actions-runner-system.svc:443/mutate-actions-summerwind-dev-v1alpha1-runner?timeout=10s:
context deadline exceeded
Solution
To fix this, you need to set up a firewall rule to allow the master node to connect to the webhook port. The exact way to do this may wary, but the following script should point you in the right direction:
# 1) Retrieve the network tag automatically given to the worker nodes
# NOTE: this only works if you have only one cluster in your GCP project. You will have to manually inspect the result of this command to find the tag for the cluster you want to target
WORKER_NODES_TAG=$(gcloud compute instances list --format='text(tags.items[0])' --filter='metadata.kubelet-config:*' | grep tags | awk '{print $2}' | sort | uniq)
# 2) Take note of the VPC network in which you deployed your cluster
# NOTE this only works if you have only one network in which you deploy your clusters
NETWORK=$(gcloud compute instances list --format='text(networkInterfaces[0].network)' --filter='metadata.kubelet-config:*' | grep networks | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq)
# 3) Get the master source ip block
SOURCE=$(gcloud container clusters describe <cluster-name> --region <region> | grep masterIpv4CidrBlock| cut -d ':' -f 2 | tr -d ' ')
gcloud compute firewall-rules create k8s-cert-manager --source-ranges $SOURCE --target-tags $WORKER_NODES_TAG --allow TCP:9443 --network $NETWORK