sriov-network-config-daemon deployment failed with error: "failed to load kubelet kubeconfig: open /host/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig: no such file or directory"

[vtlrazin]

Deployment operator failed on sriov-network-config-daemon deployment stage with error:

failed to load kubelet kubeconfig: open /host/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig: no such file or directory

Setup info:

OS - Ubuntu 18.04
Vanilla K8s - 1.17.5
SRIOV operator - github master

K8s cluster pods:

# kubectl -n sriov-network-operator get pod -o wide
NAME                                      READY   STATUS             RESTARTS   AGE     IP                NODE    NOMINATED NODE   READINESS GATES
sriov-network-config-daemon-5n9rv         0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   6          9m10s   192.168.222.102   node3   <none>           <none>
sriov-network-config-daemon-twvsm         0/1     CrashLoopBackOff   6          9m10s   192.168.222.103   node4   <none>           <none>
sriov-network-operator-56cb9ccd4d-wljvs   1/1     Running            0          9m27s   10.233.90.9       node1   <none>           <none>

Error log:

# kubectl -n sriov-network-operator describe pod sriov-network-config-daemon-twvsm
...
Events:
  Type     Reason     Age               From               Message
  ----     ------     ----              ----               -------
  Normal   Scheduled  82s               default-scheduler  Successfully assigned sriov-network-operator/sriov-network-config-daemon-twvsm to node4
  Normal   Pulling    81s               kubelet, node4     Pulling image "quay.io/openshift/origin-sriov-network-config-daemon@sha256:49a69724cd04d0264e8be94ce12893b1e4ecaf091bf4eaea02879c0e559aabf0"
  Normal   Pulled     49s               kubelet, node4     Successfully pulled image "quay.io/openshift/origin-sriov-network-config-daemon@sha256:49a69724cd04d0264e8be94ce12893b1e4ecaf091bf4eaea02879c0e559aabf0"
  Normal   Created    7s (x4 over 48s)  kubelet, node4     Created container sriov-network-config-daemon
  Normal   Started    7s (x4 over 48s)  kubelet, node4     Started container sriov-network-config-daemon
  Normal   Pulled     7s (x3 over 47s)  kubelet, node4     Container image "quay.io/openshift/origin-sriov-network-config-daemon@sha256:49a69724cd04d0264e8be94ce12893b1e4ecaf091bf4eaea02879c0e559aabf0" already present on machine
  Warning  BackOff    6s (x5 over 46s)  kubelet, node4     Back-off restarting failed container


root@node1:/# kubectl -n sriov-network-operator logs sriov-network-config-daemon-twvsm
E0118 10:48:39.313586    3286 start.go:92] failed to load kubelet kubeconfig: open /host/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig: no such file or directory
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x40 pc=0x1d6d05a]

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.runStartCmd(0x2ee4640, 0x2f97a08, 0x0, 0x0)
	/go/src/github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-operator/cmd/sriov-network-config-daemon/start.go:94 +0xdda
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0x2ee4640, 0x2f97a08, 0x0, 0x0, 0x2ee4640, 0x2f97a08)
	/go/src/github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-operator/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:846 +0x2c2
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0x2ee43a0, 0xc000831f78, 0xbb27e5, 0xc0000c0058)
	/go/src/github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-operator/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:950 +0x375
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
	/go/src/github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-operator/vendor/github.com/spf13/cobra/command.go:887
main.main()
	/go/src/github.com/k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-network-operator/cmd/sriov-network-config-daemon/main.go:27 +0x31

[zshi-redhat]

The path (/host/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig) only exists on openshift, looks like you're using openshift images on k8s environment.
Try build the image with Dockerfile.sriov-network-config-daemon and replace the config daemon image.