Incompatibility of 1.5.0 CLI with previous versions of the skupper operator

[nluaces]

After using the skupper operator (1.4.3-rh-6) a user got into the following error running 1.5.0 skupper with skupper status command

$ skupper status
Error: configmaps "skupper-network-status" not found

The problem is that the 1.5.0 relies on the existence the configmap skupper-network-status, that is not contemplated in previous versions.

Provide more information about what is happening to the user.

[waldner]

If I might add, it also requires glibc versions that make it not suitable to run on (not too) old operating systems.

$ ./skupper 
./skupper: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./skupper)
./skupper: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ./skupper)

This is with Rocky linux 8.9.

[nmcconom]

I also had to revert to using version 1.4.x because of the GLIBC requirements on a RH 8.6 machine

[nluaces]

Hi @nmcconom and @waldner, thanks for confirming it, the problem that both of you are mentioning is a known issue that we expect to solve in following versions thanks to this PR: #1288

That problem is not related with this issue (#1281), but again, thanks for letting us know.

[waldner]

I confirm that the libc version problem is solved. Thanks

[waldner]

However, this is still happening, even with 1.5.1:

❯ skupper status -n myns
Error: configmaps "skupper-network-status" not found

Not sure it's expected.

[nluaces]

The fix is not available for 1.5.1, but it is going to be in the next release. Thanks.

[waldner]

Will the fix be just a better error message or will it include the ability for 1.5.x to work with lower versions?

[waldner]

Also the new error message points to documentation at https://skupper.io/docs/index.html but I don't see any upgrade instructions there, unless they are also added with a future PR.