status code 403 trying to fetch token errors for the cnrm controller

[red8888]

I deployed the config connecter per the docs but In the logs of the cnrm-system pod im seeing these weird errors:

Error while sending request to Stackdriver Post https://monitoring.googleapis.com/v3/projects/myproject/timeSeries?alt=json: status code 403 trying to fetch http://169.254.169.254/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/token

Now I confirmed my GSA being used has owner role on myproject. Whats this token error about?

My manifest:

---
apiVersion: core.cnrm.cloud.google.com/v1beta1
kind: ConfigConnector
metadata:
  name: configconnector.core.cnrm.cloud.google.com
---
apiVersion: core.cnrm.cloud.google.com/v1beta1
kind: ConfigConnectorContext
metadata:
  name: configconnectorcontext.core.cnrm.cloud.google.com
  namespace: default
spec:
  # This account has the owner role in the myproject gcp project
  googleServiceAccount: "[email protected]"

[maqiuyujoyce]

Hi @red8888 , thank you for your question. Are you seeing the logs of the "cnrm-controller-manager-XXXX" pod? I assume you meant a pod in the "cnrm-system" namespace? Would be great if you can provide more details. E.g. the steps/commands to find the error logs.

In addition, are you blocked on this error?

[red8888]

Yes it appears I cant create resources either I get this error:

Received 403 `Unable to generate access token; IAM returned 403 Forbidden: The caller does not have permission
This error could be caused by a missing IAM policy binding on the target IAM service account.
For more information, refer to the Workload Identity documentation

I followed the doc and confirmed the pods are running and everything and made sure the google service account has the right permissions: https://cloud.google.com/config-connector/docs/how-to/install-upgrade-uninstall

I created the context that links the k8s service account to the google service account like the docs say:

apiVersion: core.cnrm.cloud.google.com/v1beta1
kind: ConfigConnectorContext
metadata:
  # you can only have one ConfigConnectorContext per Namespace
  name: configconnectorcontext.core.cnrm.cloud.google.com
  namespace: [NAMESPACE]
spec:
  # The Google Service Account used to authenticate Google Cloud APIs in this Namespace
  googleServiceAccount: "[NAMESPACE_GSA]@[HOST_PROJECT_ID].iam.gserviceaccount.com"

I see the stackdriver errors and the errors when trying to create resources in the cnrm-controller-manager-xxx Stateful Sets pods

[red8888]

my bad I had the wrong syntax for the IAM to k8s service account binding. This seems to be working now