Aria Automation Orchestrator pods fail to deploy with "Error: deployments.apps "vco-app" already exists"

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Aria Automation Orchestrator upgrade fails with:

ERROR Failed to upgrade release 'vco' in namespace 'prelude' ".

• The vco pods fails to initialize. The /var/log/vmware/prelude/helm/prelude_vco.log contains a deployment already exists error:

Error: deployments.apps "vco-app" already exists"

• A backup or file copy has been manually created in the /opt/charts/vco/templates directory

Environment

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.x

Cause

The issue occurs when files are saved in /opt/charts/vco/templates/ which cause K8s to try to load the file as another 'vco-app' Pod/service. For example backup files such as deployment.yaml.bck or deployment.yaml.old file

Resolution

To resolve the issue perform the following

1. Snapshot the Aria Automation Orchestator appliance as a best practice precaution.
2. Remove any backup files or manually created files from the /opt/charts/vco/templates/ directory
3. Deploy again the services:

/opt/scripts/deploy.sh