Failed to install k8s provider using provider name : kubernetes

[Swapnil-CSI]

What happened?

I tried to deploy k8s provider with provider name as kubernetes.

apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1
kind: Provider
metadata:
  name: kubernetes
spec:
  package: xpkg.upbound.io/crossplane-contrib/provider-kubernetes:v0.9.0
  runtimeConfigRef:
    apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1beta1
    kind: DeploymentRuntimeConfig
    name: kubernetes-provider

[swapnil@bharshankar crossplane]$ kubectl get providers.pkg
NAME         INSTALLED   HEALTHY   PACKAGE                                                         AGE
kubernetes   True        False     xpkg.upbound.io/crossplane-contrib/provider-kubernetes:v0.9.0   3s
[swapnil@bharshankar crossplane]$ kubectl get pods -n crossplane-system
NAME                                       READY   STATUS             RESTARTS     AGE
crossplane-66db6d559f-8ntzj                1/1     Running            0            3m10s
crossplane-rbac-manager-7d6f8d7b4b-tfgrr   1/1     Running            0            3m10s
kubernetes-fd7ab5be249e-64969bb97d-97dcs   0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   1 (8s ago)   9s
[swapnil@bharshankar crossplane]$
[swapnil@bharshankar crossplane]$ kubectl get svc -n crossplane-system
NAME                  TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
crossplane-webhooks   ClusterIP   10.x.x.x   <none>        9443/TCP   9m42s
kubernetes            ClusterIP   10.x.x.x   <none>        9443/TCP   6m43s
[swapnil@bharshankar crossplane]$

It showing below error in kubernetes-fd7ab5be249e-64969bb97d-97dcs pod.

[swapnil@bharshankar crossplane]$ kubectl -n crossplane-system logs kubernetes-fd7ab5be249e-64969bb97d-97dcs
2024-01-23T06:27:07.185Z        ERROR   Failed to get API Group-Resources       {"error": "Get \"https://10.x.x.x:9443/api?timeout=32s\": dial tcp 10.x.x.x:9443: connect: connection refused"}
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/cluster.New
        sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/cluster/cluster.go:161
sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/manager.New
        sigs.k8s.io/[email protected]/pkg/manager/manager.go:351
main.main
        github.com/crossplane-contrib/provider-kubernetes/cmd/provider/main.go:64
runtime.main
        runtime/proc.go:250
crossplane-kubernetes-provider: error: Cannot create controller manager: Get "https://10.x.x.x:9443/api?timeout=32s": dial tcp 10.x.x.x:9443: connect: connection refused
[swapnil@bharshankar crossplane]$

How can we reproduce it?

install provider with name kubernetes

What environment did it happen in?

Crossplane version: 1.14.5

[djeremiah]

Provider deployments use the package name as the service name by default https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/blob/master/internal/controller/pkg/revision/runtime.go#L267. Having a service named "kubernetes" shades the apiserver, and makes it so the provider can't start. This is not specific to provider-kubernetes. If you really want the provider to be named "kubernetes", you need to use the DeploymentRuntimeConfig to set the service name to something else:

apiVersion: pkg.crossplane.io/v1beta1
kind: DeploymentRuntimeConfig
metadata:
  name: kubernetes-provider
spec:
  serviceTemplate:
    metadata:
      name: something-other-than-kubernetes