Calico wait for etcd error when creating kubernetes cluster using kubespray

Question

The following error when trying to run Kubernetes cluster on ec2 using kubespray

TASK [network_plugin/calico : Calico | wait for etcd] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

Thursday 20 July 2017  17:21:40 -0400 (0:00:00.327)       0:04:16.018 ********* 
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (10 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (9 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (8 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (7 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (6 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (5 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (4 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (3 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (2 retries left).
FAILED - RETRYING: Calico | wait for etcd (1 retries left).
fatal: [node1 -> None]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 10, "changed": false, "content": "", "failed": true, "msg": "Status code was not [200]: Request failed: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>", "redirected": false, "status": -1, "url": "https://localhost:2379/health"}

Answer 1

Hey @Kanika, You need to open two ports for etcd. One 2379 as its mentioned in the logs and this port communicated with 2380, so obviously you'll need to open 2380 as well. Update your security group to aloow traffic on both these ports.