Here are some random notes on Kubernetes troubleshooting.
Today I was troubleshooting the following error. This came about when terraform hit a timeout on a helm_release resource. The error message is non-descript.
Warning: Helm release "gloo" was created but has a failed status. Use the `helm` command to investigate the error, correct it, then run Terraform again.
Unfortunately helm doesn't save any log output, so you need to dig into kubernetes to find out what happened. The kubectl get events can help us here. It returns a list of events similar to what you'd see with the kubectl describe ... command.
kubectl -n namespace get events --sort-by='{.lastTimestamp}'
kubectl -n namespace get events --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp