dapr status -k does not work on Windows with KUBECONFIG set

[robvet]

Hello Dapr Community...

Trying to initialize a Kubernetes cluster for Dapr on Windows 10:

 dapr init -k

I get the follow error message:

Deploying the Dapr control plane to your cluster...
can't connect to a Kubernetes cluster: multiple
kubeconfigs in KUBECONFIG environment v
ariable -
C:\Users.kube\config

Behavior is consistent across Git Bash, Ubuntu with WSL2, and PowerShell

Any suggestions for troubleshooting/resolution would be appreciated.

Thanks

[robvet]

My KUBECONFIG environment variables points to ==> C:\Users\robvet.kube\config
I have a single config file in that directory.

[yaron2]

You seem to have multiple contexts though, so the kubectl command that Dapr tries to run can't choose the correct one.

Use kubectl set-context to set the context. See more info here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/configure-access-multiple-clusters/

[robvet]

Unfortunately, that's not helping. Through hacking at it, discovered that if I open a command shell in admin mode (either PowerShell or GitBash), the ‘dapr status -k’ command works correctly. But, if open the same command shell without admin mode (either PowerShell or GitBash), the ‘dapr status -k’ command errors with the ‘multiple contexts’ error.

Have not seen the 'Multiple Contexts' error on any direct kubectl command, only on Dapr commands for Kubernetes: Dapr init -k, Dapr status -k

[yaron2]

Moving to the correct repository.

[yaron2]

@mukundansundar can you please look at this?

[mukundansundar]

@yaron2 I will take a look at it today ...

[robvet]

Can we possibly get some tracition on this issue? It's beeen a month.

[LKI]

Unfortunately, that's not helping. Through hacking at it, discovered that if I open a command shell in admin mode (either PowerShell or GitBash), the ‘dapr status -k’ command works correctly. But, if open the same command shell without admin mode (either PowerShell or GitBash), the ‘dapr status -k’ command errors with the ‘multiple contexts’ error.

Have not seen the 'Multiple Contexts' error on any direct kubectl command, only on Dapr commands for Kubernetes: Dapr init -k, Dapr status -k

Confirmed.

Same error here, and hacked by using sudo (Admin permission).

❯ dapr status -k
multiple kubeconfigs in KUBECONFIG environment variable - C:/Users/LKI/.kube/config

❯ sudo dapr status -k
  NAME                   NAMESPACE  HEALTHY  STATUS   REPLICAS  VERSION  AGE  CREATED
  dapr-operator          dapr       True     Running  1         1.3.0    8m   2021-09-10 11:14.41
  dapr-sidecar-injector  dapr       True     Running  1         1.3.0    8m   2021-09-10 11:14.41
  dapr-sentry            dapr       True     Running  1         1.3.0    8m   2021-09-10 11:14.41
  dapr-dashboard         dapr       True     Running  1         0.7.0    8m   2021-09-10 11:14.41
  dapr-placement-server  dapr       True     Running  1         1.3.0    8m   2021-09-10 11:14.41

[LKI]

Looks like root cause is following code:

cli/pkg/kubernetes/client.go

Lines 53 to 62 in 909b989

	kubeConfigEnv := os.Getenv("KUBECONFIG")
	delimiterBelongsToPath := strings.Count(*kubeconfig, kubeConfigDelimiter) == 1 && strings.EqualFold(*kubeconfig, kubeConfigEnv)
	if len(kubeConfigEnv) != 0 && !delimiterBelongsToPath {
	kubeConfigs := strings.Split(kubeConfigEnv, kubeConfigDelimiter)
	if len(kubeConfigs) > 1 {
	return nil, fmt.Errorf("multiple kubeconfigs in KUBECONFIG environment variable - %s", kubeConfigEnv)
	}
	kubeconfig = &kubeConfigs[0]
	}

KUBECONFIG environment variable under Windows is something like C:\Users\LKI\.kube\config.
But the delimiter is :, so the check will return an error.

[sandeshkg]

Can i work on this one? I have looked at the kubernetes docs here - https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/configure-access-multiple-clusters/ and it says -
"The KUBECONFIG environment variable is a list of paths to configuration files. The list is colon-delimited for Linux and Mac, and semicolon-delimited for Windows"
Currently the kubeConfigDelimiter is set to ":" always. We would need to set the kubeConfigDelimiter based on os.
Please do let me know if my understanding is correct and if i can proceed on same lines.

[yaron2]

Can i work on this one? I have looked at the kubernetes docs here - https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/configure-access-multiple-clusters/ and it says - "The KUBECONFIG environment variable is a list of paths to configuration files. The list is colon-delimited for Linux and Mac, and semicolon-delimited for Windows" Currently the kubeConfigDelimiter is set to ":" always. We would need to set the kubeConfigDelimiter based on os. Please do let me know if my understanding is correct and if i can proceed on same lines.

This is now closed via #834, but we'd be very happy to have you work on other things! :)