Failed create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = NetworkPlugin cni failed to set up pod network

suboss87 picture suboss87 · Jul 4, 2018 · Viewed 45k times · Source

Issue Redis POD creation on k8s(v1.10) cluster and POD creation stuck at "ContainerCreating"

Type     Reason                  Age                   From                Message
  ----     ------                  ----                  ----                -------
  Normal   Scheduled               30m                   default-scheduler   Successfully assigned redis to k8snode02
  Normal   SuccessfulMountVolume   30m                   kubelet, k8snode02  MountVolume.SetUp succeeded for volume "default-token-f8tcg"
  Warning  FailedCreatePodSandBox  5m (x1202 over 30m)   kubelet, k8snode02  Failed create pod sandbox: rpc error: code = Unknown desc = NetworkPlugin cni failed to set up pod "redis_default" network: failed to find plugin "loopback" in path [/opt/loopback/bin /opt/cni/bin]
  Normal   SandboxChanged          47s (x1459 over 30m)  kubelet, k8snode02  Pod sandbox changed, it will be killed and re-created.

Answer

mdaniel picture mdaniel · Jul 6, 2018

Ensure that /etc/cni/net.d and its /opt/cni/bin friend both exist and are correctly populated with the CNI configuration files and binaries on all Nodes. For flannel specifically, one might make use of the flannel cni repo