Trouble installing Airbyte locally using abctl install local

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Summary

Failed to install Airbyte locally using abctl install local with error ‘Failed to install airbyte/airbyte Helm Chart’


Question

Hey guys ! Anyone having trouble installing airbyte locally using abctl install local ?
I tried but it failed after taking a looooong time.
This is the error :

  ERROR   Unable to install Airbyte locally
  ERROR   unable to install airbyte chart: unable to install helm: context canceled```

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I’m on a mac m2, last version of OS

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airbyte-abctl-airbyte-bootloader   1/1     Running   0             7m38s
airbyte-db-0                       1/1     Running   1 (50m ago)   50m
airbyte-minio-0                    1/1     Running   0             50m```
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hm, no failed pods, interesting. did you try running abctl local install ... a second time?

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Yeah, and it still failed :confused:

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Nope. Should I stop the running pods first ?

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Sorry, I’m more used to docker, first time using this

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Ya, k8s can be a bit of a jump. I think you can try running install again and hopefully it picks up where it left off.

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Seems like it’s taking a lot of time here :

  DEBUG   helm - DEBUG: Pod airbyte-abctl-airbyte-bootloader pending
  DEBUG   Container image "airbyte/bootloader:0.64.1" already present on machine
  DEBUG   Created container airbyte-bootloader-container
  DEBUG   Started container airbyte-bootloader-container
  DEBUG   helm - DEBUG: Add/Modify event for airbyte-abctl-airbyte-bootloader: MODIFIED
  DEBUG   helm - DEBUG: Pod airbyte-abctl-airbyte-bootloader running
▄  Installing 'airbyte/airbyte' (version: 0.524.0) Helm Chart (this may take several minutes) (42s)```
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ya, the bootloader can be slow. In my experience, it can hang while trying to connect to the DB, if for example the DB creds are wrong or it can’t connect. Do you have any special config, or are you just doing a plain local install?

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A plain local install

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hm, bummer. sorry it’s not working well for you, especially on an M2 mac. Any chance you have your Docker Desktop resources constrained?

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I used to work on airbyte in a docker on a digitalocean., but I now only got 502. So I thought it might be easier to use it locally for now… :slightly_smiling_face:

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you can also run kubectl -n airbyte-abctl logs airbyte-abctl-airbyte-bootloader to see what exactly the bootloader is doing

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I’m currently working on trying to improve this experience all around, so I appreciate the info

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Ah ah don’t worry I know you all are working like crazy on that project and I love it. Just frustrated because I’m no admin sys and can’t make it working :slightly_smiling_face:

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Frustrated by myself

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6m now. I stop and try your last command ?

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I tried to delete the old docker container and start fresh with the verbose flag

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I wish we had an adminsys in my team … :joy: