Trident orchestrator failed with message: Failed to detect installed Trident resources; err: failed to initialize Kubernetes client

Applies to

• NetApp Trident
• RedHat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)

Issue

Trident orchestrator failed with message: Failed to detect installed Trident resources; err: failed to initialize Kubernetes client

# oc get torc -oyaml
apiVersion: v1
items:
- apiVersion: trident.netapp.io/v1
  kind: TridentOrchestrator
  metadata:
    creationTimestamp: "<time>"
    generation: 4
    name: trident
    resourceVersion: "1035596709"
    uid: 891a11dd-7817-4d5e-ab73-d84fc9096495
  spec:
    acpImage: default-quay-registry.apps.<location>.local/blrhub/netapp/astra/acc/24.02.0-69/trident-acp:24.02.0-linux-amd64
    cloudProvider: ""
    debug: false
    enableACP: true
    imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
    imagePullSecrets:
    - acc-pull-secret
    namespace: trident
    windows: false
  status:
    currentInstallationParams:
      IPv6: ""
      acpImage: ""
      autosupportHostname: ""
      autosupportImage: ""
      autosupportInsecure: false
      autosupportProxy: ""
      autosupportSerialNumber: ""
      debug: ""
      disableAuditLog: ""
      enableACP: ""
      enableForceDetach: ""
       httpRequestTimeout: ""
      imagePullPolicy: ""
      imagePullSecrets: null
      imageRegistry: ""
      iscsiSelfHealingInterval: ""
      iscsiSelfHealingWaitTime: ""
      k8sTimeout: ""
      kubeletDir: ""
      logFormat: ""
      logLayers: ""
      logLevel: ""
      logWorkflows: ""
      probePort: ""
      silenceAutosupport: ""
      tridentImage: ""
    message: 'Failed to detect installed Trident resources; err: failed to initialize
      Kubernetes client; couldn''t retrieve API server''s version: Get "https:/1.1.1.1:443/version":
      net/ http: TLS handshake timeout'
    namespace: trident
    status: Failed
    version: ""
kind: List
metadata:
  resourceVersion: ""