authentication required: Repository not found error when bootstraped with github app and flux operator

[sainathsanga]

Hello,

I have followed the instruction in the latest blog Github App bootstrap with flux operator to bootstrap flux with github app authentication and was able to install all the components. However:

1. I do not see flux-system directory being created at the path provided as mentioned in the blog: "Similarly to the Flux CLI bootstrap, the operator generates a Flux GitRepository and Kustomization named flux-system that points to the clusters/my-cluster path inside the Git repository."

2. I had a bunch of kustomizations and git repository sources in my repo. I see the kustomizations are created but they all have the same message: "failed to checkout and determine revision: unable to clone 'https://github.com/hmapss/certmanager.git': authentication required: Repository not found." I see the same error message when I use kubectl describe gitrepository <source-name>

I created Github App with repo permissions for all the repositories as:

Administrator: Read Only
Contents: Read and Write
Metadata: Read Only.

I created kubernetes secret using flux cli as suggested in the blog. This worked with my fleet repo but not with my other git repositories. Here is an example source yaml:

--- apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1 kind: GitRepository metadata: name: certmanager-source namespace: flux-system spec: interval: 5m0s ref: branch: main url: https://github.com/hmapss/certmanager.git

I assumed they will be authenticated with the same secret I created for bootstrapping. Should I include pullSecret for these sources as well?

How can I resolve this issue?

Thank you for your help.

[stefanprodan]

You need to set .spec.secretRef.name to the name of your pullSecret in all GitRepos, also the .spec.provider must be set to github.

See the the GitRepository generated by Flux Operator and copy those fields from there, run flux export source git flux-system.

[sainathsanga]

That worked!Thank you!