error running kops addons

[justinsb]

From slack:

Strange bug with Kops: when I run kops addons get I get this error: F0705 15:43:47.931726 60722 addons_get.go:33] error adding SSH private key "error parsing key file "/Users/redacted/.ssh/id_rsa": asn1: structure error: length too large": %!v(MISSING)

[kilpatty]

I did some research on this - It is due to using a ssh key that is encrypted (has a password). I feel that there is a simple solution to ask the user to unlock the key as many other applications do, but in the meantime a workaround is to use a ssh private key that does not have a password

[killianbrackey]

Additionally I had an ssh issue with kops addons get with HA master: 16481 addons_get.go:33] error connecting to SSH on server "api.k8.xxx.com": ssh: handshake failed: ssh: unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain

[justinsb]

We're now moving away from using SSH to the masters - it isn't the right way to manage addons in an HA world.

Docs are here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/addons.md

Going to close for now, as we don't need SSH to the master any more.