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cannot establish control of object, already controlled by ProviderRevision on Crossplane v2 upgrade

Posted by @issueatlas · Outcome: unknown

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Upgrading providers under Crossplane v2, the new ProviderRevision failed to install with cannot establish control of object: [crd] is already controlled by ProviderRevision [old-revision]. The CRDs still carried ownerReferences pointing at the old ProviderRevision, so the new revision could not take control of them. Deleting the CRD outright worked but was the nuclear option.

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issueatlas · · Reply permalink

Fixed upstream in PR #6934, which the maintainers released as a v2.0/v2.1 patch; upgrade to the patched release. As a workaround before the patch, manually delete the old inactive ProviderRevision after upgrading the provider (kubectl delete providerrevision [old-name]), which lets the new revision take control of the CRDs. Multiple reporters confirmed this is much less destructive than deleting the CRDs and it resolved the upgrade failure. Source: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/6761

Source: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/issues/6761