# Elasticsearch Resource creation failing with ECK operator

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-resource-creation-failing-with-eck-operator/267524>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\
**Created:** [March 17, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-resource-creation-failing-with-eck-operator/267524 "2021-03-17T13:52:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Kaustav\_Das](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kaustav_das/32/74595_2.png) [@Kaustav\_Das](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kaustav_Das)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-resource-creation-failing-with-eck-operator/267524/1 "2021-03-17T13:52:50Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to setup elastic search multi node cluster using eck operator and pod going into CrashLoopBackOff with following error

readiness probe failed: {"timestamp": "2021-03-17T18:33:03+05:30", "message": "readiness probe failed", "curl\_rc": "7"}

While checking eck operator logs it says

**kubectl -n elastic logs -f pod/elastic-operator-0**

{"log.level":"error","@timestamp":"2021-03-17T18:31:46.622+0530","log.logger":"annotation","message":"failed to update pod annotation","service.version":"1.4.0+4aff0b98","service.type":"eck","ecs.version":"1.4.0","annotation":"[update.k8s.elastic.co/timestamp","namespace":"elastic","pod\_name":"mysample-es-data-2","error":"Pod](http://update.k8s.elastic.co/timestamp%22,%22namespace%22:%22elastic%22,%22pod_name%22:%22mysample-es-data-2%22,%22error%22:%22Pod) "mysample-es-data-2" is invalid: spec: **Forbidden: pod updates may not change fields other than** `spec.containers[*].image`, `spec.initContainers[*].image`, `spec.activeDeadlineSeconds` or `spec.tolerations` (only additions to existing tolerations)\n core.PodSpec{\n \t... // 10 identical fields\n \tAutomountServiceAccountToken: &false,\n \tNodeName: "sparrow-dev-operator-dev-1-nodes-1-8288959",\n \tSecurityContext: &core.PodSecurityContext{\n \t\t... // 11 identical fields\n \t\tFSGroupChangePolicy: nil,\n \t\tSysctls: nil,\n- \t\tSeccompProfile: nil,\n+ \t\tSeccompProfile: &core.SeccompProfile{Type: "RuntimeDefault"},\n \t},\n \tImagePullSecrets: nil,\n \tHostname: "mysample-es-data-2",\n \t... // 15 identical fields\n }\n","error.stack\_trace":"[github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/common/annotation.MarkPodAsUpdated\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/common/annotation/pod.go:73\ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport.reconcileNodeSetTransportCertificatesSecrets\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport/reconcile.go:173\ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport.ReconcileTransportCertificatesSecrets\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport/reconcile.go:61\ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates.Reconcile\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/reconcile.go:102\ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/driver.(\*defaultDriver](http://github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/common/annotation.MarkPodAsUpdated%5Cn%5Ct/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/common/annotation/pod.go:73%5Cngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport.reconcileNodeSetTransportCertificatesSecrets%5Cn%5Ct/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport/reconcile.go:173%5Cngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport.ReconcileTransportCertificatesSecrets%5Cn%5Ct/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/transport/reconcile.go:61%5Cngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates.Reconcile%5Cn%5Ct/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/certificates/reconcile.go:102%5Cngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/driver.(*defaultDriver)).Reconcile\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/driver/driver.go:134\[ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch.(\*ReconcileElasticsearch](http://ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch.(*ReconcileElasticsearch)).internalReconcile\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/elasticsearch\_controller.go:290\[ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch.(\*ReconcileElasticsearch](http://ngithub.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch.(*ReconcileElasticsearch)).Reconcile\n\t/go/src/github.com/elastic/cloud-on-k8s/pkg/controller/elasticsearch/elasticsearch\_controller.go:199\[nsigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(\*Controller](http://nsigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller)).reconcileHandler\n\t/go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime@v0.6.3/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:244\[nsigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(\*Controller](http://nsigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller)).processNextWorkItem\n\t/go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime@v0.6.3/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:218\[nsigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(\*Controller](http://nsigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime/pkg/internal/controller.(*Controller)).worker\n\t/go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime@v0.6.3/pkg/internal/controller/controller.go:197\[nk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.BackoffUntil.func1\n\t/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:155\nk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.BackoffUntil\n\t/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:156\nk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.JitterUntil\n\t/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:133\nk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.Until\n\t/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:90](http://nk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.BackoffUntil.func1%5Cn%5Ct/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:155%5Cnk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.BackoffUntil%5Cn%5Ct/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:156%5Cnk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.JitterUntil%5Cn%5Ct/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:133%5Cnk8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/wait.Until%5Cn%5Ct/go/pkg/mod/k8s.io/apimachinery@v0.18.14/pkg/util/wait/wait.go:90)"}

Sample Yaml file:

```auto
apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Elasticsearch
metadata:
  name: mysample
spec:
  version: 7.11.1
  nodeSets:
  - name: masters
    count: 3
    config:
      node.roles: ["master"]
      node.store.allow_mmap: false
  - name: data
    count: 5
    config:
      node.roles: ["data"]
    volumeClaimTemplates:
    - metadata:
        name: quickstart-pvc
      spec:
        accessModes:
        - ReadWriteOnce
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 5Gi
        storageClassName: local-hdd-lv
    podTemplate:
      spec:
        securityContext:
          runAsUser: 1000
        containers:
        - name: elasticsearch
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: 1
              memory: 2Gi
            limits:
              cpu: 1
              memory: 2Gi

```

Note: Same works when nodesets.count = 1 (Following is the config)

```auto
apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1
kind: Elasticsearch
metadata:
  name: quickstart
spec:
  version: 7.11.1
  nodeSets:
  - name: default
    count: 1
    config:
      node.store.allow_mmap: false
    volumeClaimTemplates:
    - metadata:
        name: elasticsearch-data
      spec:
        accessModes:
        - ReadWriteOnce
        resources:
          requests:
            storage: 5Gi
        storageClassName: local-hdd-lv
    podTemplate:
      spec:
        securityContext:
          runAsUser: 1000
        containers:
        - name: elasticsearch
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: 4
              memory: 8Gi
            limits:
              cpu: 4
              memory: 8Gi

```

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**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-resource-creation-failing-with-eck-operator/267524/2 "2021-04-14T13:53:15Z")

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