Initializing a project does not work with 3.3.0

[antonincms]

What broke? What's expected?

I don't know if it is a corner-case related to some of my config, or some kind of PEBCAK because it seems so big,
but when I try to initialize a new project it simply fails for me (cf Reproducing this issue).

Reproducing this issue

me@t490:~$ mkdir -p ~/projects/guestbook
me@t490:~$ cd ~/projects/guestbook
me@t490:~$ kubebuilder init --domain my.domain --repo my.domain/guestbook
Writing kustomize manifests for you to edit...
Writing scaffold for you to edit...
Get controller runtime:
$ go get sigs.k8s.io/controller-runtime@v0.11.0
# sigs.k8s.io/json/internal/golang/encoding/json
../../go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/json@v0.0.0-20211020170558-c049b76a60c6/internal/golang/encoding/json/encode.go:1249:12: sf.IsExported undefined (type reflect.StructField has no field or method IsExported)
../../go/pkg/mod/sigs.k8s.io/json@v0.0.0-20211020170558-c049b76a60c6/internal/golang/encoding/json/encode.go:1255:18: sf.IsExported undefined (type reflect.StructField has no field or method IsExported)
Error: failed to initialize project: unable to scaffold with "base.go.kubebuilder.io/v3": exit status 2

KubeBuilder (CLI) Version

Version: main.version{KubeBuilderVersion:"3.3.0", KubernetesVendor:"1.23.1", GitCommit:"47859bf2ebf96a64db69a2f7074ffdec7f15c1ec", BuildDate:"2022-01-18T17:03:29Z", GoOs:"linux", GoArch:"amd64"}

PROJECT version

The project is not scaffolded yet.

Plugin versions

The project is not scaffolded yet.

Other versions

me@t490:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 21.10
Release: 21.10
Codename: impish

me@t490:~$ go version
go version go1.16.12 linux/amd64

me@t490:~$ kubectl version --client
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"23", GitVersion:"v1.23.1", GitCommit:"86ec240af8cbd1b60bcc4c03c20da9b98005b92e", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-12-16T11:41:01Z", GoVersion:"go1.17.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

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[camilamacedo86]

Hi @antonincms,

The problem is the go version. You must use go 1.17 with 3.3.0+
Can you please upgrade the go version installed and check it out?

[antonincms]

Hi Camila !

Indeed, that also match with what I found about my error messages.
This isn't documented in the quick-start prerequisites, I guess it should ?

[camilamacedo86]

Hi @antonincms,

That is true, We did not updated : https://book.kubebuilder.io/quick-start.html

Could you help us by pushing a PR to fix that?
We also need to cherry-pick it to the branch book-v3.

[antonincms]

Could you help us by pushing a PR to fix that?

I will, but I'm waiting on a ticket about my CLA !