Failed to create ClusterRole for kube-lego

Question

I did this example https://github.com/jetstack/kube-lego/tree/master/examples/gce , then failed to create ClusterRole kube-lego.

The error is:

Error from server (Forbidden): error when creating "k8s/kube-lego/hoge.yaml": clusterroles.rbac.authorization.k8s.io "kube-lego" is forbidden: attempt to grant extra privileges: [PolicyRule{Resources:["pods"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["get"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["pods"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["list"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["services"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["create"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["services"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["get"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["services"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["delete"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["services"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["update"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["endpoints"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["create"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["endpoints"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["get"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["endpoints"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["delete"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["endpoints"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["update"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["ingresses"], APIGroups:["extensions"], Verbs:["get"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["ingresses"], APIGroups:["extensions"], Verbs:["update"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["ingresses"], APIGroups:["extensions"], Verbs:["create"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["ingresses"], APIGroups:["extensions"], Verbs:["list"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["ingresses"], APIGroups:["extensions"], Verbs:["patch"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["ingresses"], APIGroups:["extensions"], Verbs:["delete"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["ingresses"], APIGroups:["extensions"], Verbs:["watch"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["endpoints"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["get"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["endpoints"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["create"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["endpoints"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["update"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["secrets"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["get"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["secrets"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["create"]} PolicyRule{Resources:["secrets"], APIGroups:[""], Verbs:["update"]}] user=&{[email protected]  [system:authenticated] map[]} ownerrules=[PolicyRule{Resources:["selfsubjectaccessreviews" "selfsubjectrulesreviews"], APIGroups:["authorization.k8s.io"], Verbs:["create"]} PolicyRule{NonResourceURLs:["/api" "/api/*" "/apis" "/apis/*" "/healthz" "/swagger-2.0.0.pb-v1" "/swagger.json" "/swaggerapi" "/swaggerapi/*" "/version"], Verbs:["get"]}] ruleResolutionErrors=[]

I tried on 1.8.6-gke.0, 1.8.7-gke.0 and 1.9.2-gke.0.

thanks.

Answer 1

As commented in kube-lego issue 225:

Turns out the error I was receiving in an known issue with GKE 1.6. I resolved by following this article:

get current google identity

$ gcloud info | grep Account
Account: [[email protected]]

grant cluster-admin to your current identity

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding myname-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin [email protected]
Clusterrolebinding "myname-cluster-admin-binding" created

For the actual RBAC to define, see issue 99

It refers to Adds official RBAC rules, which applies the right settings:

# RBAC objects
kubectl apply -f lego/service-account.yaml
kubectl apply -f lego/cluster-role.yaml
kubectl apply -f lego/cluster-role-binding.yaml