bug in alpha conversion

[jmccormick2001]

Bug Report

I'm seeing the following error:

operator-sdk alpha config-3alpha-to-3
Error: unable to load the configuration: unable to create config for version "3-alpha": version 3-alpha is not supported
Usage:
operator-sdk [flags]

Examples:
The first step is to initialize your project:
operator-sdk init [--plugins= [--project-version=]]

What did you do?

Here is the PROJECT file it is reading:

domain: example.com
layout: go.kubebuilder.io/v3
projectName: sample-operator
repo: github.com/jmccormick2001/sample-operator
resources:
- crdVersion: v1
  group: cache
  kind: SampleOperand
  version: v1alpha1
version: 3-alpha
plugins:
  manifests.sdk.operatorframework.io/v2: {}
  scorecard.sdk.operatorframework.io/v2: {}

What did you expect to see?

I expected it to convert the PROJECT to the newest/latest format.

What did you see instead? Under which circumstances?

operator-sdk alpha config-3alpha-to-3
Error: unable to load the configuration: unable to create config for version "3-alpha": version 3-alpha is not supported
Usage:
operator-sdk [flags]

Examples:
The first step is to initialize your project:
operator-sdk init [--plugins= [--project-version=]]

Environment

Operator type:

/language go

Kubernetes cluster type:

snoot:[~/sample-operator] kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"20", GitVersion:"v1.20.0", GitCommit:"af46c47ce925f4c4ad5cc8d1fca46c7b77d13b38", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-12-08T17:59:43Z", GoVersion:"go1.15.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"20", GitVersion:"v1.20.0", GitCommit:"af46c47ce925f4c4ad5cc8d1fca46c7b77d13b38", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-12-08T17:51:19Z", GoVersion:"go1.15.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

$ operator-sdk version

snoot:[~] operator-sdk version
operator-sdk version: "scorecard-kuttl/v2.0.0-43-g6b6c0214", commit: "6b6c021400894281b0d35033e83b5671e4c5f1ac", kubernetes version: "v1.19.4", go version: "go1.15.5", GOOS: "linux", GOARCH: "amd64"

$ go version (if language is Go)
snoot:[~] go version
go version go1.15.5 linux/amd64

$ kubectl version

Possible Solution

none

Additional context

none

[jmrodri]

The alpha config-3alpha-to-3 command used to convert the PROJECT file is failing because getInfo fails in KB: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/blob/master/pkg/cli/cli.go#L148-L150 basically the command we want to run to convert the config file fails because we can't read the config file

[jmrodri]

Looks like it is the loading of the configuration file. If I ignore the loading error here https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/blob/master/pkg/cli/cli.go#L194, I can get the command to work.

[estroz]

I believe this is a regression in behavior in kubebuilder, since extra commands should not require a (valid) PROJECT file.

/kind bug

[jmrodri]

I believe this is a reversion in behavior in kubebuilder, since extra commands should not require a (valid) PROJECT file.

/kind bug

AH HA! Yes, I noticed operator-sdk version no longer works either. That's helpful.

[jmrodri]

blocked by kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder#2125

[jmrodri]

PR created to solve kubebuilder issue: kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder#2126

[jmrodri]

PR kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder#2126 merged, we now need another kubebuilder release