FAILED! => {"msg": "An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'kubernetes.core.kustomize'. Error was a <class 'FileNotFoundError'>, o riginal message: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/bin/kubectl'. [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/bin/kubectl'"}

[alishaik1]

SUMMARY

I am trying to use the kustomize anisble module but unable to execute it. Kubernetes resources are not creating.
Kubernetes node is having kubectl binary

/usr/local/bin/kubectl version
Client Version: v1.28.2
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
Server Version: v1.28.2

ISSUE TYPE

Code:

• name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output
  k8s:
  definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='../hybrid-cloud/kustomization.yaml', binary_path='/usr/local/bin/kubectl') }}"

Error1:
FAILED! => {"msg": "An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'kubernetes.core.kustomize'. Error was a <class 'FileNotFoundError'>, o
riginal message: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/bin/kubectl'. [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/bin/kubectl'"}

---

Code:

• name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output
  k8s:
  definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='../hybrid-cloud/kustomization.yaml') }}"
  Error2:
  FAILED! => {"msg": "Failed to find required executable 'kubectl' and 'kustomize' in paths"}

COMPONENT NAME

kubernetes.core.kustomize

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible --version
ansible [core 2.14.0]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/home/test-user/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/test-user/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.9.16 (main, May 31 2023, 12:21:58) [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-18)] (/usr/bin/python3.9)
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True

COLLECTION VERSION

ansible-galaxy collection list kubernetes.core

/home/test-user/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections

Collection Version

---

kubernetes.core 2.4.0

##### CONFIGURATION
<!--- Paste verbatim output from "ansible-config dump --only-changed" between quotes -->
```ansible-config dump --only-changed
CONFIG_FILE() = None

OS / ENVIRONMENT

uname -a
Linux ansible-master 4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 13:01:45 EST 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[test-user@ansible-master tasks]$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
VERSION="8.8 (Ootpa)"

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

below or the syntax i tried:

• name: Run lookup using kubectl
  set_fact:
  resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', binary_path='/usr/local/bin/kubectl') }}"

• name: Run lookup
  set_fact:
  resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='../hybrid-cloud/kustomization.yaml', binary_path='/usr/local/bin/kubectl') }}"

• name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output
  k8s:
  definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='../hybrid-cloud/kustomization.yaml', binary_path='/usr/local/bin/kubectl') }}"

---

- name: Run lookup using kubectl
  set_fact:
    resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', binary_path='/usr/local/bin/kubectl') }}"

- name: Run lookup
  set_fact:
    resources: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='../hybrid-cloud/kustomization.yaml', binary_path='/usr/local/bin/kubectl') }}"

- name: Create kubernetes resources for lookup output
  k8s:
    definition: "{{ lookup('kubernetes.core.kustomize', dir='../hybrid-cloud/kustomization.yaml', binary_path='/usr/local/bin/kubectl') }}"

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

[gravesm]

@alishaik1 Keep in mind that lookup plugins run on the control node, not the remote node. kubectl/kustomize will have to be present on the machine that you are running Ansible from.