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Resolving Pending State During Cluster Removal with k10multicluster Tool

Resolving Pending State During Cluster Removal with k10multicluster Tool

KB ID:	4598
Product:	Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes
Published:	2024-06-11
Last Modified:	2024-06-11

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Challenge

This article helps in finding and deleting long-running finalizers that are waiting on other resources and can cause deletions to appear stuck in the terminating state.

Description:

When Kubernetes attempts to delete the cluster object that has finalizers “dist.kio.kasten.io/debootstrap or dist.kio.kasten.io/manual-debootstrap” specified, the Kubernetes API marks the object for deletion by populating .metadata.deletionTimestamp, and returns a 202-status code (HTTP "Accepted"). The cluster object remains in a terminating/Pending state while the control plane, or other components, take the actions defined by the finalizers.

Long-running finalizers that are waiting on other resources can cause deletions to appear stuck in the terminating state. This is a result of the ServiceAccount (or its corresponding token/bindings) being deleted on the secondary cluster, and 401 or 500 error shown in the Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes dashboard.

Observation:

The Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes multi-cluster dashboard displays ‘Removal Pending’ for primary and secondary clusters, as shown below:

Solution

The traditional way to resolve this involves determining which API service is not responding and then debugging that issue.

An alternative workaround for this issue is to remove the clusters by manually deleting the finalizers which are restricting deletion of the cluster.

Here are the steps to remove an object’s finalizers:

List down the target cluster.

kubectl get clusters.dist.kio.kasten.io -n kasten-io-mc

Delete the target cluster resources by its name.

kubectl delete clusters.dist.kio.kasten.io ${CLUSTER_NAME} -n kasten-io-mc

Get the finalizer name to be deleted.

kubectl get cluster.dist.kio.kasten.io -n kasten-io -o yaml

Example output:

— apiVersion: dist.kio.kasten.io/v1alpha1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
 creationTimestamp: "2022-04-26T11:02:22Z"
 deletionGracePeriodseconds: 0
 deletionTimestamp: "2022-04-26T11:18:54Z"
 finalizers:
 — dist.kio.kasten.io/manual—debootstrap
 generation: 2
 labels:
   dist.kio.kasten.io/cluster—type: secondary
 name: secondary—cluster
 namespace: kasten—io—mc
 resourceVersion: "3630125"
 uid: 8eae79ca-0a3e-454e-938e-7ac3c281ba4c

Manually remove an object’s finalizers by patching the metadata.finalizers field to null:

kubectl patch --namespace=kasten-io-mc clusters.dist.kio.kasten.io ${CLUSTER_NAME} -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}' --type=merge type=merge 
                
            

More Information

The following command can be used to delete all clusters at once:

for x in $(kubectl get clusters.dist.kio.kasten.io -n kasten-io-mc | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}') ; do kubectl patch --namespace=kasten-io-mc clusters.dist.kio.kasten.io $x -p '{"metadata":{"finalizers":null}}' --type=merge ; done 
                
            

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