can't create cluster in China - error fetching https://.../channels/stable

[pahud]

summary

cluster can't be created if the kops client has poor internet connection to github. You can test the connectivity by

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable

how to re-produce this issue

1. turning on -v flag in kops create

   kops create cluster \
    -v 9 \
    --cloud=aws \
   ...

2. running create-cluster.sh

9801a7a9620b:kops-cn hunhsieh $ bash create-cluster.sh I0129 01:36:33.093275 18727 create_cluster.go:1407] Using SSH public key: /Users/hunhsieh/.ssh/id_rsa.pub I0129 01:36:33.093795 18727 factory.go:68] state store s3://pahud-kops-state-store-zhy I0129 01:36:33.342730 18727 s3context.go:194] found bucket in region "cn-northwest-1" I0129 01:36:33.342805 18727 s3fs.go:220] Reading file "s3://pahud-kops-state-store-zhy/cluster.zhy.k8s.local/config" I0129 01:36:33.487717 18727 channel.go:97] resolving "stable" against default channel location "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/" I0129 01:36:33.487769 18727 channel.go:102] Loading channel from "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable" I0129 01:36:33.489467 18727 context.go:159] Performing HTTP request: GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable I0129 01:37:03.492838 18727 context.go:227] retrying after error error fetching "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": Get https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable: dial tcp 151.101.196.133:443: i/o timeout I0129 01:37:03.993923 18727 context.go:159] Performing HTTP request: GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable I0129 01:37:33.997853 18727 context.go:227] retrying after error error fetching "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": Get https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable: dial tcp 151.101.196.133:443: i/o timeout I0129 01:37:35.000502 18727 context.go:159] Performing HTTP request: GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable I0129 01:38:05.001673 18727 context.go:227] retrying after error error fetching "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": Get https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable: dial tcp 151.101.196.133:443: i/o timeout I0129 01:38:07.002652 18727 context.go:159] Performing HTTP request: GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable I0129 01:38:37.009644 18727 context.go:227] retrying after error error fetching "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": Get https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable: dial tcp 151.101.196.133:443: i/o timeout I0129 01:38:41.010692 18727 context.go:159] Performing HTTP request: GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable I0129 01:39:11.012203 18727 context.go:231] hit maximum retries 5 with error error fetching "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": Get https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable: dial tcp 151.101.196.133:443: i/o timeout

error reading channel "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": error fetching "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable": Get https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/channels/stable: dial tcp 151.101.196.133:443: i/o timeout

[pahud]

there're two options to fix this issue:

1. run the create script in Cloud9 IDE in other global regions(e.g. us-west-2 or ap-southeast-1) or
2. run the create script in China but export http_proxy and https_proxy first. For example:

   export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:1087;export https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:1087;

   This wil work around this issue.