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Unable to Deploy to a New Kubernetes Cluster to Spinnaker

Issue

Customers may see a variety of errors when attempting to add a new Kubernetes Cluster into Spinnaker. Exception ( Monitor Deploy ) Failed to read [configMap] from IDM-staging: error: You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized) The cluster appears in the Spinnaker Console UI, but users cannot deploy to the cluster because of various errors.    

Cause

The reason for the situation and errors are likely to fall into one of the following situations: 

  • kubeconfig file configuration * The token in the kubeconfig file does not match the token in the secrets* How does the role or cluster role configuration look like* How does the role/cluster role binding configuration look like* The path to the kubeconfig file in the SpinnakerService configuration * Spinnakerservice configuration typos/formatting