Cluster configuration failed. Cluster configuration is already in progress. Cannot configure the cluster membership until this finishes.

Products

• VMware Avi Load Balancer

Issue/Introduction

- In UI, you will see the Nodes are in 'Processing' state by navigating to Administration> Controller> Nodes:

- Execute the below command to see the status of the cluster:

> show cluster status

- Check if you are getting the below error in UI while adding the followers by navigating to Administration> Controller> Nodes> Edit:

- Check if you are getting the below log from portal-webapp.log and cluster_config.log :

portal-webapp.log

ERROR [views_clustering_custom.put:171] Cluster configuration failed. Cluster configuration is already in progress. Cannot configure the cluster membership until this finishes.

cluster_config.log

ERROR [config_utils.check_cluster_data:834] cluster state file missing: /var/lib/avi/etc/tmp_cluster_dir/

Environment

All AVI versions before release 31.2.1

Cause

Cluster configuration failure caused by etcd snapshot timeout. 

 

This is solved by enhancing cluster configuration failure handling and removing etcd in 31.2.1

Resolution

This is resolved in 31.2.1.

Workaround: Delete the temporary cluster configuration directory from /var/lib/avi/etc/tmp_cluster_dir on all controller nodes