error creating customized resource map for kustomize

[zmalik]

What happened:
while extending an operator and including more steps/tasks I'm seeing the error in KUDO controller logs

2019/12/11 10:22:02 InstanceController: Error during execution: fatal error: default/kafka failed in deploy.deploy-cruise.deploy-cruise.cruise-control-deploy: error creating customized resource map for kustomize: <nil> is expected to be map[string]interface {}

What you expected to happen:
Give more information about the error, so operator developers can fix the issue or further debug the issue.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
use this branch https://github.com/kudobuilder/operators/tree/issue-1161 to install KUDO Kafka

kubectl kudo plan status  --instance=kafka
Plan(s) for "kafka" in namespace "default":
.
└── kafka (Operator-Version: "kafka-1.0.2" Active-Plan: "deploy")
    ├── Plan deploy (serial strategy) [FATAL_ERROR]
    │   ├── Phase deploy-kafka [COMPLETE]
    │   │   └── Step deploy (COMPLETE)
    │   └── Phase deploy-cruise [FATAL_ERROR]
    │       └── Step deploy-cruise (FATAL_ERROR)
    └── Plan not-allowed (serial strategy) [NOT ACTIVE]
        └── Phase not-allowed (serial strategy) [NOT ACTIVE]
            └── Step not-allowed (serial strategy) [NOT ACTIVE]
                └── not-allowed [NOT ACTIVE]

Anything else we need to know?:

Environment:

• Kubernetes version (use kubectl version): 1.16.3
• Kudo version (use kubectl kudo version): 0.8.0
• Operator:
• operatorVersion:
• Cloud provider or hardware configuration:
• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release):
• Kernel (e.g. uname -a):
• Install tools:
• Others:

[zmalik]

the issue was caused by empty annotations
kubernetes-sigs/kustomize#1017

leaving this open, so we can close after

• bumping kustomize depdendency
• having more verbose logs to help operator developers to debug this