Keptn Dev Setup Fails due to mismatch of controller tools and go version

[shardulsrivastava]

Details

I am trying to setup the development environment for the lifecycle-toolkit based on the instructions here.

When running the make commands to build locally and deploy:
make build-deploy-dev-environment RELEASE_REGISTRY=ghcr.io/shardulsrivastava TAG=main ARCH=amd64

I am getting this error:

0.678 go: sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/[email protected]: sigs.k8s.io/[email protected] requires go >= 1.22.0 (running go 1.21.12; GOTOOLCHAIN=local)

Full Error Log

    => ERROR [builder 6/7] RUN go install sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/[email protected]                                                    0.8s
    ------
     > [builder 6/7] RUN go install sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/[email protected]:
    0.510 go: downloading sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools v0.15.0
    0.678 go: sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/[email protected]: sigs.k8s.io/[email protected] requires go >= 1.22.0 (running go 1.21.12; GOTOOLCHAIN=local)
    ------
    Dockerfile:17
    --------------------
      15 |     # renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=kubernetes-sigs/controller-tools
      16 |     ARG CONTROLLER_TOOLS_VERSION=v0.15.0
      17 | >>> RUN go install sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/controller-gen@$CONTROLLER_TOOLS_VERSION
      18 |     
      19 |     ARG GIT_HASH
    --------------------
    ERROR: failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c go install sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/controller-gen@$CONTROLLER_TOOLS_VERSION" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
    make[1]: *** [Makefile:156: release-local.amd64] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/workspaces/lifecycle-toolkit/keptn-cert-manager'
    make: *** [Makefile:156: build-deploy-certmanager] Error 2

which seems to indicate that controller-tools needs go-lang version 1.22 as opposed to v1.21 used in the Dockerfile.

Fix

I worked around the issue by using the controller tools version v0.14.0. So this works :

make build-deploy-dev-environment RELEASE_REGISTRY=ghcr.io/shardulsrivastava TAG=main ARCH=amd64 CONTROLLER_TOOLS_VERSION=v0.14.0

[mowies]

Thanks for posting this! We're looking into it.

[odubajDT]

Can you please try again? We updated some dependencies that should fix this. Thanks!

[shardulsrivastava]

It works now, thanks.

@mowies @odubajDT I would like to contribute the devcontainer configuration for setting up the development environment of the lifecycle toolkit in codespaces, would that be something interesting to you?

[mowies]

Sure sounds good. If you could write a quick issue for it describing what you're looking for and what the benefits are, that would be great :)