Misleading errors/messages on istiod pods when the istiod pods scaled up.
Issue
- After scaling the istiod pod to more than 1 replica, it always fail with below error:
2025-05-23T14:05:08.028898Z info starting gRPC discovery service at [::]:15010
2025-05-23T14:05:08.029031Z info controllers starting controller=default revision
2025-05-23T14:05:08.028822Z info starting webhook service at [::]:15017
2025-05-23T14:05:10.553792Z info validationController Endpoint successfully rejected invalid config. Switching to fail-close.
2025-05-23T14:05:10.558635Z error validationController failed to updated: Operation cannot be fulfilled on validatingwebhookconfigurations.admissionregistration.k8s.io "istio-validator-istio-system": the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again name=istio-validator-istio-system resource version=5150402
2025-05-23T14:05:10.558692Z error controllers error handling istio-validator-istio-system, retrying (retry count: 1): fail to update webhook: Operation cannot be fulfilled on validatingwebhookconfigurations.admissionregistration.k8s.io "istio-validator-istio-system": the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again controller=validation
2025-05-23T14:05:12.475846Z error validationController failed to updated: Operation cannot be fulfilled on validatingwebhookconfigurations.admissionregistration.k8s.io "istio-validator-istio-system": the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again name=istio-validator-istio-system resource version=5150430
2025-05-23T14:05:12.475890Z error controllers error handling istio-validator-istio-system, retrying (retry count: 1): fail to update webhook: Operation cannot be fulfilled on validatingwebhookconfigurations.admissionregistration.k8s.io "istio-validator-istio-system": the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again controller=validation
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
- 4
- OpenShift Service Mesh (OSSM )
- 3.0.1
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