pods in namespace "vidb-external" failed to start due to missing secret "vidb-postgres-instance-postgres-cert-secret"

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• Pods in the vidb-external namespace fail to start with the following status:
  
  kubectl get pod -n vidb-external
vidb-external        vidb-postgres-instance-#                                                 0/3     ContainerCreating   0                    ##h
vidb-external        vidb-service-##########-#####                                            0/1     Unknown             0                    ##d
vidb-external        vidb-service-##########-#####                                            0/1     Unknown             0                    ##d
vidb-external        vidb-service-##########-#####                                            0/1     Init:0/1            ### (mm-ss ago)      ##h
  
  
  
• Running `kubectl describe pod vidb-postgres-instance-0 -n vidb-external` reveals the following error in the Events section:
  
  MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "pgbackup-sidecar-tls-cert" : secret "vidb-postgres-instance-postgres-cert-secret" not found
MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "vidb-postgres-instance-postgres-cert-secret" : secret "vidb-postgres-instance-postgres-cert-secret" not found

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Cause

The secret 'vidb-postgres-instance-postgres-cert-secret' is missing from the environment.

Resolution

The resolution is to recover the secret 'vidb-postgres-instance-postgres-cert-secret'. Please contact Broadcom VCF support for further assistant.