Management Cluster Creation Fails Due to /etc/nodelet Folder Creation Failure.

Problem

The Management cluster creation command airctl advanced-ddu create-mgmt is failing due to below mentioned permission error:

# airctl advanced-ddu create-mgmt --config /opt/pf9/airctl/conf/airctl-config.yaml
...

2023-11-17T16:54:13.460Z info Creating node state dir: /etc/nodelet/airctl-mgmt

2023-11-17T16:54:13.460Z info Failed to Parse Cluster Config: Failed to generate custom hosts file: Failed to create dir: mkdir /etc/nodelet: permission denied

Failed to create nodelet cluster: Failed to Parse Cluster Config: Failed to generate custom hosts file: Failed to create dir: mkdir /etc/nodelet: permission denied
Error: Failed to Parse Cluster Config: Failed to generate custom hosts file: Failed to create dir: mkdir /etc/nodelet: permission denied
Usage:
airctl advanced-ddu create-mgmt [flags]

Flags:
-h, --help help for create-mgmt

Global Flags:
--config string config file (default is $HOME/airctl-config.yaml)
--json json output for commands (configure-hosts only currently)

Environment

  • Self Managed Cloud Platform9 v-5.9.1.

Workaround

Manually create the folder /etc/nodelet.

Answer

The mentioned issue is resolved in the SMCP-5.9.2 release.

Additional Information

The jira associated with the above fix is AIR-1248.

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