Trident Orchestrator crash looping due to non existing volume
Applies to
- Trident v22.10 and earlier
- Kubernetes
- ONTAP 9
Issue
The main trident pod fails initialization with below error
Failed to install Trident; err: command terminated with exit code 1;Error: could not get version:
Trident initialization failed;error attempting to clean up volume pvc-XXXX-XXXX from backend Backendname-xxxx:
error checking for existing volume:API status: failed,
Reason: Volume name: The first character must be a letter or underscore., Code: 13001 (500 Internal Server Error)