Incorrect `Kind` in ownerRef

[vpavlin]

I am trying to run Airflow Operator on OpenShift 4 and I am hitting an interesting issue:

ERROR: logging before flag.Parse: E0930 15:45:08.736404       1 genericreconciler.go:52] Failed: [*v1alpha1.AirflowBase/airflowop-system/pc-base(cmpnt:*airflowbase.Postgres)] Create. statefulsets.apps "pc-base-postgres" is forbidden: cannot set blockOwnerDeletion in this case because cannot find RESTMapping for APIVersion airflow.k8s.io/v1alpha1 Kind *v1alpha1.AirflowBase: no matches for kind "*v1alpha1.AirflowBase" in version "airflow.k8s.io/v1alpha1"

I traced the source of this to https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/airflow-operator/blob/master/vendor/sigs.k8s.io/controller-reconciler/pkg/genericreconciler/genericreconciler.go#L219 - i.e. the Kind gets set to actual type (*v1alpha1.AirflowBase) instead of just AirflowBase

I also noticed this function https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/airflow-operator/blob/master/pkg/apis/airflow/v1alpha1/airflowbase_types.go#L513 which looks like that is what we actually want to be used, but it never enters that function during execution.

It also seems the controller-reconciler project is gone.

I was able to workaround the issue by turning of the blockOwnerDeletion but I don't like that at all:) It unblocked me for experimenting more with Airflow, but I would like to find a real solution.

Any thoughts on how to solve this?

[barney-s]

controller-reconciler is a manually vendored project. We are trying to fix that. For now copy that from master into your vendor directory.

[barney-s]

Would you ensure that the CRDs are installed ?
do a kubectl get crd and see if AirflowBase and AirflowCluster are available.

[vpavlin]

Would you ensure that the CRDs are installed ?

Yes, as I mentioned, I found a workaround with disabling blockOwnerDeletion and at that point everything got deployed. But it is still broken in a sense that artifacts wouldn't get deleted when I delete the operator

controller-reconciler is a manually vendored project. We are trying to fix that. For now copy that from master into your vendor directory.

The problem with controller-reconciler is that it sets the Kind incorrect - see the link that I shared

I am happy to send a PR, but I am not sure what is the good way to fix this