# Failed to setup automated snapshot with elastic operator **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management, slm-snapshot-lifecycle-management, snapshot-and-restore\ **Created:** [December 27, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-setup-automated-snapshot-with-elastic-operator/322041 "2022-12-27T14:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahmoud\_Yasser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mahmoud_yasser/32/115269_2.png) [@Mahmoud\_Yasser](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mahmoud_Yasser)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2022, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-setup-automated-snapshot-with-elastic-operator/322041/1 "2022-12-27T14:27:33Z")
I'm launching 3 elastic nodes using elastic operator and i tried to set up automated snapshots for these instances. I used elastic operator 2.5.0 on Kubernetes version v1.23.11-gke.300 and used Elasticsearch version 8.5.3 and Kibana version 8.5.3 I followed this [Create automated snapshots | Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes [2.5] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-snapshots.html) I minified the Json of the service account key and created a file called **"gcs.client.default.credentials\_file"** with no file extension and added this file to Kubernetes secrets. This is the command i used to build the k8s secret `kubectl create secret generic gcs-credentials --from-file=gcs.client.default.credentials_file -n elastic-system` This is the configrations yaml file: ```auto apiVersion: elasticsearch.k8s.elastic.co/v1 kind: Elasticsearch metadata: name: elasticsearch-cluster spec: version: 8.5.3 secureSettings: - secretName: gcs-credentials nodeSets: - name: node count: 3 config: node.roles: ['master', 'data', 'ingest', 'ml', 'remote_cluster_client', 'transform'] podTemplate: spec: initContainers: - name: sysctl securityContext: privileged: true runAsUser: 0 command: ['sh', '-c', 'sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144'] - name: install-plugins command: - sh - -c - | bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-icu bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-kuromoji bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-smartcn bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-stempel bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-nori bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-phonetic bin/elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-ukrainian containers: - name: elasticsearch env: - name: ES_JAVA_OPTS value: "-Xms1g -Xmx1g" resources: requests: cpu: 1000m memory: 2Gi limits: cpu: 2000m memory: 4Gi volumeClaimTemplates: - metadata: name: elasticsearch-data spec: accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"] storageClassName: "standard" resources: requests: storage: 100Gi --- apiVersion: kibana.k8s.elastic.co/v1 kind: Kibana metadata: name: kibana spec: version: 8.5.3 count: 1 elasticsearchRef: name: elasticsearch-cluster config: xpack.reporting.roles.enabled: false xpack.reporting.kibanaServer.hostname: localhost ``` And added the secureSettings.secretName field to the spec of the elastic cluster and added the secret name to it which was **"gcs-credentials"** But I get this error on the logs which saying: **failed to load plugin class [org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStoragePlugin]** ```auto `{"@timestamp":"2022-12-26T18:45:40.037Z", "log.level":"ERROR", "message":"fatal exception while booting Elasticsearch", "ecs.version": "1.2.0","` [`service.name`](https://service.name/)`":"ES_ECS","event.dataset":"elasticsearch.server","` [`process.thread.name`](https://process.thread.name/)`":"main","log.logger":"org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch","` [`elasticsearch.node.name`](https://elasticsearch.node.name/)`":"elasticsearch-cluster-es-node-1","` [`elasticsearch.cluster.name`](https://elasticsearch.cluster.name/)`":"elasticsearch-cluster","error.type":"java.lang.IllegalStateException","error.message":"failed to load plugin class [org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStoragePlugin]","error.stack_trace":"java.lang.IllegalStateException: failed to load plugin class [org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStoragePlugin]\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadPlugin(` [`PluginsService.java:607`](https://pluginsservice.java:607/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadBundle(` [`PluginsService.java:482`](https://pluginsservice.java:482/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadBundles(` [`PluginsService.java:290`](https://pluginsservice.java:290/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.(` [`PluginsService.java:159`](https://pluginsservice.java:159/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.lambda$getPluginsServiceCtor$14(` [`PluginsService.java:634`](https://pluginsservice.java:634/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(` [`Node.java:406`](https://node.java:406/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(` [`Node.java:316`](https://node.java:316/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch$2.(` [`Elasticsearch.java:214`](https://elasticsearch.java:214/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.initPhase3(` [`Elasticsearch.java:214`](https://elasticsearch.java:214/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(` [`Elasticsearch.java:67`](https://elasticsearch.java:67/)`)\nCaused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException\n\tat java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectConstructorHandleAccessor.newInstance(` [`DirectConstructorHandleAccessor.java:79`](https://directconstructorhandleaccessor.java:79/)`)\n\tat java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstanceWithCaller(` [`Constructor.java:500`](https://constructor.java:500/)`)\n\tat java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(` [`Constructor.java:484`](https://constructor.java:484/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.server@8.5.0/org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.loadPlugin(` [`PluginsService.java:600`](https://pluginsservice.java:600/)`)\n\t... 9 more\nCaused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: failed to load GCS client credentials from [gcs.client.default.credentials_file]\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.loadCredential(` [`GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.java:265`](https://googlecloudstorageclientsettings.java:265/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.getClientSettings(` [`GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.java:221`](https://googlecloudstorageclientsettings.java:221/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.load(` [`GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.java:209`](https://googlecloudstorageclientsettings.java:209/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStoragePlugin.reload(` [`GoogleCloudStoragePlugin.java:88`](https://googlecloudstorageplugin.java:88/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStoragePlugin.(` [`GoogleCloudStoragePlugin.java:36`](https://googlecloudstorageplugin.java:36/)`)\n\tat java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectConstructorHandleAccessor.newInstance(` [`DirectConstructorHandleAccessor.java:67`](https://directconstructorhandleaccessor.java:67/)`)\n\t... 12 more\nCaused by: java.io.IOException: Invalid PKCS#8 data.\n\tat com.google.auth.oauth2.ServiceAccountCredentials.privateKeyFromPkcs8(` [`ServiceAccountCredentials.java:496`](https://serviceaccountcredentials.java:496/)`)\n\tat com.google.auth.oauth2.ServiceAccountCredentials.fromPkcs8(` [`ServiceAccountCredentials.java:474`](https://serviceaccountcredentials.java:474/)`)\n\tat com.google.auth.oauth2.ServiceAccountCredentials.fromJson(` [`ServiceAccountCredentials.java:212`](https://serviceaccountcredentials.java:212/)`)\n\tat com.google.auth.oauth2.ServiceAccountCredentials.fromStream(` [`ServiceAccountCredentials.java:548`](https://serviceaccountcredentials.java:548/)`)\n\tat com.google.auth.oauth2.ServiceAccountCredentials.fromStream(` [`ServiceAccountCredentials.java:520`](https://serviceaccountcredentials.java:520/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.lambda$loadCredential$13(` [`GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.java:257`](https://googlecloudstorageclientsettings.java:257/)`)\n\tat java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(` [`AccessController.java:569`](https://accesscontroller.java:569/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.SocketAccess.doPrivilegedIOException(` [`SocketAccess.java:33`](https://socketaccess.java:33/)`)\n\tat org.elasticsearch.repositories.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.loadCredential(` [`GoogleCloudStorageClientSettings.java:256`](https://googlecloudstorageclientsettings.java:256/)`)\n\t... 17 more\n"}` `ERROR: Elasticsearch did not exit normally - check the logs at /usr/share/elasticsearch/logs/elasticsearch-cluster.log` ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-setup-automated-snapshot-with-elastic-operator/322041/2 "2023-01-24T14:28:22Z")
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