Unable to bootstrap (cloud type: localhost) - Error when installing Kuberneters cluster locally with LXD/Conjure-up - kubernetes

Question

Using Ubuntu 18.04.
I am trying to install a kubernetes cluster on my local machine (localhost) using this guide (LXD + conjure-up kubernetes):
https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/ubuntu/local/#before-you-begin
When I run:
conjure-up kubernetes
I select the following installation:
and select localhost for "Choose a cloud" and use the defaults for the rest of the install wizard. It then starts to install and after 30-40 minutes it completes with this error:
Here is the log:
https://pastebin.com/raw/re1UvrUU
Where one error says:
2018-07-25 20:09:38,125 [ERROR] conjure-up/canonical-kubernetes - events.py:161 - Unhandled exception in <Task finished coro=<BaseBootstrapController.run() done, defined at /snap/conjure-up/1015/lib/python3.6/site-packages/conjureup/controllers/juju/bootstrap/common.py:15> exception=BootstrapError('Unable to bootstrap (cloud type: localhost)',)>
but that does not really help much.
Any suggestion to why the install wizard/conjure-up fails?
Also based on this post:
https://github.com/conjure-up/conjure-up/issues/1308
I have tried to first disable firewall:
sudo ufw disable
and then re-run installation/conjure install wizard. But I get the same error.
Some more details on how I installed and configured LXD/conjure-up below:
$ snap install lxd
lxd 3.2 from 'canonical' installed
$ /snap/bin/lxd init
Would you like to use LXD clustering? (yes/no) [default=no]:
Do you want to configure a new storage pool? (yes/no) [default=yes]:
Name of the new storage pool [default=default]:
Name of the storage backend to use (btrfs, ceph, dir, lvm) [default=btrfs]:
Create a new BTRFS pool? (yes/no) [default=yes]:
Would you like to use an existing block device? (yes/no) [default=no]:
Size in GB of the new loop device (1GB minimum) [default=26GB]:
Would you like to connect to a MAAS server? (yes/no) [default=no]:
Would you like to create a new local network bridge? (yes/no) [default=yes]:
What should the new bridge be called? [default=lxdbr0]:
What IPv4 address should be used? (CIDR subnet notation, “auto” or “none”) [default=auto]:
What IPv6 address should be used? (CIDR subnet notation, “auto” or “none”) [default=auto]:
Would you like LXD to be available over the network? (yes/no) [default=no]:
Would you like stale cached images to be updated automatically? (yes/no) [default=yes]
Would you like a YAML "lxd init" preseed to be printed? (yes/no) [default=no]:
Configured group membership:
sudo usermod -a -G lxd $USER
newgrp lxd
Next installed:
sudo snap install conjure-up --classic
And then ran installation:
conjure-up kubernetes

Answer 1

I wasn't able to reproduce your exact problem but i got conjure-up + lxd installed and in the end Kubernetes on my newly installed VirtualBox Ubuntu 18.04 (Desktop) VM. Hopefully this answer could help you somehow!
I looked through the kubernetes.io documentation page and that one lacked tiny bits of information, it does mention lxd but not the part with lxd init which i assume you picked up in the conjure-up user manual.
So with that said, i followed the conjure-up user manual with some minor changes on the way. I'm assuming that it's OK for you to use the edge version of conjure-up, i started off with the stable one but changed to edge when testing different combinations.
Also please ensure that you have the recommended resources available stated by the user manual, conjure-up and the Canoncial Distribution of Kubernetes launches a number of containers for you. You might not need 3 x etcd, 3 x worker nodes and 2 x Master, and if you don't just tune the number of containers down in the conjure-up wizard.
These are the steps i performed (as my local user):
Make sure your Ubuntu box are updated: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Install conjure-up by running: sudo snap install conjure-up --classic --edge
Install lxd by running: sudo snap install lxd
With lxd comes the client part which is lxc, if you run e.g. lxc list you should get an empty table (no containers started yet). I got an permission error at this time, i ran the following: sudo chown -R lxd:lxd /var/snap/lxd/ to change owner and group of the lxd directory containing the socket you'll be communicating with using lxc.
Add your user to the lxdgroup: sudo usermod -a -G lxd $USER && newgrp lxd, log off and on to make this permanent and not only active in your current shell.
Now create a lxd bridge manually with the following command: lxc network create lxdbr1 ipv4.address=auto ipv4.nat=true ipv6.address=none ipv6.nat=false
Now let's run the init part of lxd with lxd init. Remember to answer no when being asked to create a new local network bridge?, in the next prompt provide your newly created network bridge instead (lxdbr1). The rest of the answers to the questions can be left as default.
Now continue with running conjure-up kubernetes and choose localhost as your type. For me the localhost choice was greyed out from the beginning, it worked when i created the network bridge manually and not via the lxd init step.
Skip the additional components you can install like Rancher, Prometheus etc.
Choose your new network bridge and the default storage pool, proceed to the next step.
In the next step customize your Kubernetes cluster if needed and then hit Deploy. And now you wait!
You can always troubleshoot and list all containers created with the lxc tool. If you've ever used Docker the lxc tool feels a lot like the docker client.
And finally some thoughts and observations, there's a lot of moving parts to conjure-up as you might have seen. It's actually described as: conjure-up is a thin layer spanning a few different underlying technologies - Juju, MAAS and LXD.
For reference, i ended up having the following versions installed:
lxd version 3.3
conjure-up version 2.6.1