Quick Tip – Delete Stale Entries on Cloud Director CSE

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Container Service Extension (CSE) is a VMware vCloud Director (VCD) extension that helps tenants create and work with Kubernetes clusters.CSE brings Kubernetes as a Service to VCD, by creating customized VM templates (Kubernetes templates) and enabling tenant users to deploy fully functional Kubernetes clusters as self-contained vApps.

Due to any reason, if tenant’s cluster creation stuck and it continue to show “CREATE:IN_PROGRESS” or “Creating” for many hours, it means that the cluster creation has failed for unknown reason, and the representing defined entity has not transitioned to the ERROR state .

Solution

To fix this, provider admin need to get in to API and delete these stale entries, there are very few simple steps to clean those stale entries.

First – Let’s get the “X-VMWARE-VCLOUD-ACCESS-TOKEN” for API calls by calling below API call:

  • https://<vcd url>/cloudapi/1.0.0/sessions/provider
  • Authentication Type: Basic
  • Username/password – <adminid@system>/<password>

Above API call will return “X-VMWARE-VCLOUD-ACCESS-TOKEN”, inside header section of response window. copy this token and use as “Bearer” token in subsequent API calls.

Second – we need to get the “Cluster ID” of the stale cluster which we want to delete, and to get “Cluster ID” – Go in to Cloud Director Kubernetes Container Extension and click on cluster which is stuck and get Cluster IP in URN Format.

Third (Optional) – Get the cluster details using below API call and using authentication using Bearer token , which we first step:

Get  https://<vcd-fqdn>/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/<cluster-id>/

Fourth – Delete the stale cluster using below API call by providing “ClusterID“, which we captured in second step and using authenticate type a “Bearer Token“

Delete https://<vcd-fqdn>/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/<cluster-id>/

Above API call should respond with “204 No Content”, it means API call has been executed sucessfully.

Now if you login to Cloud Director “Kubernetes Container Cluster” extension, above API call must have deleted the stale/stuck cluster entry

Now you can go to Cloud Director vAPP section and see if any vAPP/VM is running for that cluster , shutdown that VM and Delete it from Cloud Director. simple three API calls to complete the process.

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