Access denied to GCP storage from Germany location (Hetzner cloud provider) about kops

[hakman]

@prachetasp Please check:

• for proxy - https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/http_proxy/
• for artifacts mirror - https://kops.sigs.k8s.io/operations/asset-repository/
• custom image - get the assets with kops get assets and bake them into the image, nodeup logs should tell you where the files should be copied

[hakman]

@purushred This is a common issue with Hetzner. Google is blocking IPs that were used in the past for DDOS or similar things.
To fix this, you need to delete the instance, update the cluster and hope the new server has a non-blocked address.

[purushred]

Thank you for quick response.
Unfortunately this is happening consistently.
When choose the Helsinki region it works fine.
I am wondering if there is there a workaround to change to a custom path for the package download instead of GCS location?

[hakman]

You could try using a proxy or a mirror the artifacts.

[purushred]

You could try using a proxy or a mirror the artifacts.

Any references on how to configure proxy/mirror for the artifacts?
Or maybe I could create a custom image for nodes with the required pkgs pre-installed so that it doesn't have to download again.
Any clues will be really helpful. 🙇

[purushred]

Closing this ticket as the issue is not in the kops as the IPs are blocked by google while accessing the assets.