Troubleshooting

Clusterctl failed with GitHub rate limit error

By design Clusterctl fetches artifacts from repositories hosted on GitHub, this operation is subject to GitHub API rate limits.

While this is generally okay for the majority of users, there is still a chance that some users (especially developers or CI tools) hit this limit:

Error: failed to get repository client for the XXX with name YYY: error creating the GitHub repository client: failed to get GitHub latest version: failed to get the list of versions: rate limit for github api has been reached. Please wait one hour or get a personal API tokens a assign it to the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable

As explained in the error message, you can increase your API rate limit by creating a GitHub personal token and setting a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable using the token.