Org is waiting for CA when first creates network by Kubernetes

[Linkadi98]

I have tried the latest code in main branch to check k8s support. I use minikube on local to test with installed tools as fablo suggestion. When I use fablo recreate or fablo up command to start the network in minikube, the step Deploying Org1 CA stucks with this log

Generating network config
FABLO_VERSION: 1.2.1-unstable.0
FABLO_CONFIG: /root/hyperledger-fabric/nodejs/fablo-config.json
FABLO_NETWORK_ROOT: /root/hyperledger-fabric/nodejs/fablo-target
Used network config: /network/workspace/../../network/fablo-config.json
Fabric version is: 2.4.7
Validation errors count: 0
Validation warnings count: 0

create fabric-config/.gitignore
create fabric-k8s/.env
create fabric-k8s/scripts/base-functions.sh
create fabric-k8s.sh
create fabric-k8s/scripts/base-help.sh
create fabric-k8s/scripts/util.sh
create fabric-k8s/scripts/chaincode-functions.sh
create hooks/post-generate.sh

Done & done !!! Try the network out:
-> fablo up - to start network
-> fablo help - to view all commands
fablo:setup-network
Formatting generated files
Executing post-generate hook
Executing Fablo Kubernetes command: up
============ 🦄 Checking dependencies... 🦄 ==============
Verifying kubectl-hlf installation...
/root/.krew/bin/kubectl-hlf
Verifying default kubernetes cluster
============ 🦄 Starting Network... 🦄 ==============
==== 🦄 Deploying Org1 CA 🦄 ====
INFO[0000] Certificate authority org1-ca created on namespace default
waiting for CA
waiting for CA
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With first try it shows waiting for CA and it doesn't continue to the next step.

[dzikowski]

Thanks for posting the issue! Unfortunately the k8s support for Fablo does not work very well, and we have some work towards fixing it, see #425. There is still a lot of work to do, so I cannot promise any date it will be done.

Under the hood Fablo uses Bevel operator. If you really need Kubernetes, you can try to start a network with pure Bevel. Also note it does not work with minikube - the kind tool is recommended.

If you don't need Kubernetes, I suggest you to use Fablo with Docker.

[Linkadi98]

I switch to bevel operator after some searching, but the suggestion of bevel operator is not clear much so I hope fablo will fully support k8s in near future. I really love automation tool like fablo 😄.