<p>I've installed <code>kong-ingress-controller</code> using yaml file on a 3-nodes k8s cluster.
but I'm getting this (the status of pod is <code>CrashLoopBackOff</code>):</p>
<pre><code>$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE     NAME                                        READY   STATUS             RESTARTS         AGE
kong          ingress-kong-74d8d78f57-57fqr               1/2     CrashLoopBackOff   12 (3m23s ago)   40m
[...]

</code></pre>
<p>there are 2 container declarations in kong yaml file: <code>proxy</code> and <code>ingress-controller</code>.
The first one is up and running but the <code>ingress-controller</code> container is not:</p>
<pre><code>$kubectl describe pod ingress-kong-74d8d78f57-57fqr -n kong |less

[...]
  ingress-controller:
    Container ID:   docker://8e9a3370f78b3057208b943048c9ecd51054d0b276ef6c93ccf049093261d8de
    Image:          kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller:1.3
    Image ID:       docker-pullable://kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller@sha256:cff0df9371d5ad07fef406c356839736ce9eeb0d33f918f56b1b232cd7289207
    Port:           8080/TCP
    Host Port:      0/TCP
    State:          Waiting
      Reason:       CrashLoopBackOff
    Last State:     Terminated
      Reason:       Error
      Exit Code:    1
      Started:      Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:15:54 +0430
      Finished:     Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:15:54 +0430
    Ready:          False
    Restart Count:  13
    Liveness:       http-get http://:10254/healthz delay=5s timeout=1s period=10s #success=1 #failure=3
    Readiness:      http-get http://:10254/healthz delay=5s timeout=1s period=10s #success=1 #failure=3
    Environment:
      CONTROLLER_KONG_ADMIN_URL:              https://127.0.0.1:8444
      CONTROLLER_KONG_ADMIN_TLS_SKIP_VERIFY:  true
      CONTROLLER_PUBLISH_SERVICE:             kong/kong-proxy
      POD_NAME:                               ingress-kong-74d8d78f57-57fqr (v1:metadata.name)
      POD_NAMESPACE:                          kong (v1:metadata.namespace)
    Mounts:
      /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount from kube-api-access-ft7gg (ro)
Conditions:
  Type              Status
  Initialized       True
  Ready             False
  ContainersReady   False
  PodScheduled      True
Volumes:
  kube-api-access-ft7gg:
    Type:                    Projected (a volume that contains injected data from multiple sources)
    TokenExpirationSeconds:  3607
    ConfigMapName:           kube-root-ca.crt
    ConfigMapOptional:       &lt;nil&gt;
    DownwardAPI:             true
QoS Class:                   BestEffort
Node-Selectors:              &lt;none&gt;
Tolerations:                 node.kubernetes.io/not-ready:NoExecute op=Exists for 300s
                             node.kubernetes.io/unreachable:NoExecute op=Exists for 300s
Events:
  Type     Reason     Age                  From               Message
  ----     ------     ----                 ----               -------
  Normal   Scheduled  46m                  default-scheduler  Successfully assigned kong/ingress-kong-74d8d78f57-57fqr to kung-node-2
  Normal   Pulled     46m                  kubelet            Container image &quot;kong:2.5&quot; already present on machine
  Normal   Created    46m                  kubelet            Created container proxy
  Normal   Started    46m                  kubelet            Started container proxy
  Normal   Pulled     45m (x4 over 46m)    kubelet            Container image &quot;kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller:1.3&quot; already present on machine
  Normal   Created    45m (x4 over 46m)    kubelet            Created container ingress-controller
  Normal   Started    45m (x4 over 46m)    kubelet            Started container ingress-controller
  Warning  BackOff    87s (x228 over 46m)  kubelet            Back-off restarting failed container

</code></pre>
<p>And here is the log of <code>ingress-controller</code> container:</p>
<pre><code>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kong Ingress controller
  Release:
  Build:
  Repository:
  Go:         go1.16.7
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

W0907 12:56:12.940106       1 client_config.go:614] Neither --kubeconfig nor --master was specified.  Using the inClusterConfig.  This might not work.
time=&quot;2021-09-07T12:56:12Z&quot; level=info msg=&quot;version of kubernetes api-server: 1.22&quot; api-server-host=&quot;https://10.*.*.1:443&quot; git_commit=632ed300f2c34f6d6d15ca4cef3d3c7073412212 git_tree_state=clean git_version=v1.22.1 major=1 minor=22 platform=linux/amd64
time=&quot;2021-09-07T12:56:12Z&quot; level=fatal msg=&quot;failed to fetch publish-service: services \&quot;kong-proxy\&quot; is forbidden: User \&quot;system:serviceaccount:kong:kong-serviceaccount\&quot; cannot get resource \&quot;services\&quot; in API group \&quot;\&quot; in the namespace \&quot;kong\&quot;&quot; service_name=kong-proxy service_namespace=kong

</code></pre>
<p>If someone could help me to get a solution, that would be awesome.</p>
<p>============================================================</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>:</p>
<p>The <code>kong-ingress-controller</code>'s yaml file:</p>
<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: kong
---
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
  name: kongclusterplugins.configuration.konghq.com
spec:
  additionalPrinterColumns:
  - JSONPath: .plugin
    description: Name of the plugin
    name: Plugin-Type
    type: string
  - JSONPath: .metadata.creationTimestamp
    description: Age
    name: Age
    type: date
  - JSONPath: .disabled
    description: Indicates if the plugin is disabled
    name: Disabled
    priority: 1
    type: boolean
  - JSONPath: .config
    description: Configuration of the plugin
    name: Config
    priority: 1
    type: string
  group: configuration.konghq.com
  names:
    kind: KongClusterPlugin
    plural: kongclusterplugins
    shortNames:
    - kcp
  scope: Cluster
  subresources:
    status: {}
  validation:
    openAPIV3Schema:
      properties:
        config:
          type: object
        configFrom:
          properties:
            secretKeyRef:
              properties:
                key:
                  type: string
                name:
                  type: string
                namespace:
                  type: string
              required:
              - name
              - namespace
              - key
              type: object
          type: object
        disabled:
          type: boolean
        plugin:
          type: string
        protocols:
          items:
            enum:
            - http
            - https
            - grpc
            - grpcs
            - tcp
            - tls
            type: string
          type: array
        run_on:
          enum:
          - first
          - second
          - all
          type: string
      required:
      - plugin
  version: v1
---
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
  name: kongconsumers.configuration.konghq.com
spec:
  additionalPrinterColumns:
  - JSONPath: .username
    description: Username of a Kong Consumer
    name: Username
    type: string
  - JSONPath: .metadata.creationTimestamp
    description: Age
    name: Age
    type: date
  group: configuration.konghq.com
  names:
    kind: KongConsumer
    plural: kongconsumers
    shortNames:
    - kc
  scope: Namespaced
  subresources:
    status: {}
  validation:
    openAPIV3Schema:
      properties:
        credentials:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        custom_id:
          type: string
        username:
          type: string
  version: v1
---
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
  name: kongingresses.configuration.konghq.com
spec:
  group: configuration.konghq.com
  names:
    kind: KongIngress
    plural: kongingresses
    shortNames:
    - ki
  scope: Namespaced
  subresources:
    status: {}
  validation:
    openAPIV3Schema:
      properties:
        proxy:
          properties:
            connect_timeout:
              minimum: 0
              type: integer
            path:
              pattern: ^/.*$
              type: string
            protocol:
              enum:
              - http
              - https
              - grpc
              - grpcs
              - tcp
              - tls
              type: string
            read_timeout:
              minimum: 0
              type: integer
            retries:
              minimum: 0
              type: integer
            write_timeout:
              minimum: 0
              type: integer
          type: object
        route:
          properties:
            headers:
              additionalProperties:
                items:
                  type: string
                type: array
              type: object
            https_redirect_status_code:
              type: integer
            methods:
              items:
                type: string
              type: array
            path_handling:
              enum:
              - v0
              - v1
              type: string
            preserve_host:
              type: boolean
            protocols:
              items:
                enum:
                - http
                - https
                - grpc
                - grpcs
                - tcp
                - tls
                type: string
              type: array
            regex_priority:
              type: integer
            request_buffering:
              type: boolean
            response_buffering:
              type: boolean
            snis:
              items:
                type: string
              type: array
            strip_path:
              type: boolean
        upstream:
          properties:
            algorithm:
              enum:
              - round-robin
              - consistent-hashing
              - least-connections
              type: string
            hash_fallback:
              type: string
            hash_fallback_header:
              type: string
            hash_on:
              type: string
            hash_on_cookie:
              type: string
            hash_on_cookie_path:
              type: string
            hash_on_header:
              type: string
            healthchecks:
              properties:
                active:
                  properties:
                    concurrency:
                      minimum: 1
                      type: integer
                    healthy:
                      properties:
                        http_statuses:
                          items:
                            type: integer
                          type: array
                        interval:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        successes:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                      type: object
                    http_path:
                      pattern: ^/.*$
                      type: string
                    timeout:
                      minimum: 0
                      type: integer
                    unhealthy:
                      properties:
                        http_failures:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        http_statuses:
                          items:
                            type: integer
                          type: array
                        interval:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        tcp_failures:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        timeout:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                      type: object
                  type: object
                passive:
                  properties:
                    healthy:
                      properties:
                        http_statuses:
                          items:
                            type: integer
                          type: array
                        interval:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        successes:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                      type: object
                    unhealthy:
                      properties:
                        http_failures:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        http_statuses:
                          items:
                            type: integer
                          type: array
                        interval:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        tcp_failures:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                        timeout:
                          minimum: 0
                          type: integer
                      type: object
                  type: object
                threshold:
                  type: integer
              type: object
            host_header:
              type: string
            slots:
              minimum: 10
              type: integer
          type: object
  version: v1
---
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
  name: kongplugins.configuration.konghq.com
spec:
  additionalPrinterColumns:
  - JSONPath: .plugin
    description: Name of the plugin
    name: Plugin-Type
    type: string
  - JSONPath: .metadata.creationTimestamp
    description: Age
    name: Age
    type: date
  - JSONPath: .disabled
    description: Indicates if the plugin is disabled
    name: Disabled
    priority: 1
    type: boolean
  - JSONPath: .config
    description: Configuration of the plugin
    name: Config
    priority: 1
    type: string
  group: configuration.konghq.com
  names:
    kind: KongPlugin
    plural: kongplugins
    shortNames:
    - kp
  scope: Namespaced
  subresources:
    status: {}
  validation:
    openAPIV3Schema:
      properties:
        config:
          type: object
        configFrom:
          properties:
            secretKeyRef:
              properties:
                key:
                  type: string
                name:
                  type: string
              required:
              - name
              - key
              type: object
          type: object
        disabled:
          type: boolean
        plugin:
          type: string
        protocols:
          items:
            enum:
            - http
            - https
            - grpc
            - grpcs
            - tcp
            - tls
            type: string
          type: array
        run_on:
          enum:
          - first
          - second
          - all
          type: string
      required:
      - plugin
  version: v1
---
apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: CustomResourceDefinition
metadata:
  name: tcpingresses.configuration.konghq.com
spec:
  additionalPrinterColumns:
  - JSONPath: .status.loadBalancer.ingress[*].ip
    description: Address of the load balancer
    name: Address
    type: string
  - JSONPath: .metadata.creationTimestamp
    description: Age
    name: Age
    type: date
  group: configuration.konghq.com
  names:
    kind: TCPIngress
    plural: tcpingresses
  scope: Namespaced
  subresources:
    status: {}
  validation:
    openAPIV3Schema:
      properties:
        apiVersion:
          type: string
        kind:
          type: string
        metadata:
          type: object
        spec:
          properties:
            rules:
              items:
                properties:
                  backend:
                    properties:
                      serviceName:
                        type: string
                      servicePort:
                        format: int32
                        type: integer
                    type: object
                  host:
                    type: string
                  port:
                    format: int32
                    type: integer
                type: object
              type: array
            tls:
              items:
                properties:
                  hosts:
                    items:
                      type: string
                    type: array
                  secretName:
                    type: string
                type: object
              type: array
          type: object
        status:
          type: object
  version: v1beta1
status:
  acceptedNames:
    kind: &quot;&quot;
    plural: &quot;&quot;
  conditions: []
  storedVersions: []
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: kong-serviceaccount
  namespace: kong
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: kong-ingress-clusterrole
rules:
- apiGroups:
  - &quot;&quot;
  resources:
  - endpoints
  - nodes
  - pods
  - secrets
  verbs:
  - list
  - watch
- apiGroups:
  - &quot;&quot;
  resources:
  - nodes
  verbs:
  - get
- apiGroups:
  - &quot;&quot;
  resources:
  - services
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
- apiGroups:
  - networking.k8s.io
  - extensions
  - networking.internal.knative.dev
  resources:
  - ingresses
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
- apiGroups:
  - &quot;&quot;
  resources:
  - events
  verbs:
  - create
  - patch
- apiGroups:
  - networking.k8s.io
  - extensions
  - networking.internal.knative.dev
  resources:
  - ingresses/status
  verbs:
  - update
- apiGroups:
  - configuration.konghq.com
  resources:
  - tcpingresses/status
  verbs:
  - update
- apiGroups:
  - configuration.konghq.com
  resources:
  - kongplugins
  - kongclusterplugins
  - kongcredentials
  - kongconsumers
  - kongingresses
  - tcpingresses
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
- apiGroups:
  - &quot;&quot;
  resources:
  - configmaps
  verbs:
  - create
  - get
  - update
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: kong-ingress-clusterrole-nisa-binding
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: kong-ingress-clusterrole
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: kong-serviceaccount
  namespace: kong
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  annotations:
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol: tcp
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: nlb
  name: kong-proxy
  namespace: kong
spec:
  ports:
  - name: proxy
    port: 80
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8000
  - name: proxy-ssl
    port: 443
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8443
  selector:
    app: ingress-kong
  type: LoadBalancer
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: kong-validation-webhook
  namespace: kong
spec:
  ports:
  - name: webhook
    port: 443
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8080
  selector:
    app: ingress-kong
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    app: ingress-kong
  name: ingress-kong
  namespace: kong
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: ingress-kong
  template:
    metadata:
      annotations:
        kuma.io/gateway: enabled
        prometheus.io/port: &quot;8100&quot;
        prometheus.io/scrape: &quot;true&quot;
        traffic.sidecar.istio.io/includeInboundPorts: &quot;&quot;
      labels:
        app: ingress-kong
    spec:
      containers:
      - env:
        - name: KONG_PROXY_LISTEN
          value: 0.0.0.0:8000, 0.0.0.0:8443 ssl http2
        - name: KONG_PORT_MAPS
          value: 80:8000, 443:8443
        - name: KONG_ADMIN_LISTEN
          value: 127.0.0.1:8444 ssl
        - name: KONG_STATUS_LISTEN
          value: 0.0.0.0:8100
        - name: KONG_DATABASE
          value: &quot;off&quot;
        - name: KONG_NGINX_WORKER_PROCESSES
          value: &quot;2&quot;
        - name: KONG_ADMIN_ACCESS_LOG
          value: /dev/stdout
        - name: KONG_ADMIN_ERROR_LOG
          value: /dev/stderr
        - name: KONG_PROXY_ERROR_LOG
          value: /dev/stderr
        image: kong:2.5
        lifecycle:
          preStop:
            exec:
              command:
              - /bin/sh
              - -c
              - kong quit
        livenessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 3
          httpGet:
            path: /status
            port: 8100
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 10
          successThreshold: 1
          timeoutSeconds: 1
        name: proxy
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8000
          name: proxy
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 8443
          name: proxy-ssl
          protocol: TCP
        - containerPort: 8100
          name: metrics
          protocol: TCP
        readinessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 3
          httpGet:
            path: /status
            port: 8100
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 10
          successThreshold: 1
          timeoutSeconds: 1
      - env:
        - name: CONTROLLER_KONG_ADMIN_URL
          value: https://127.0.0.1:8444
        - name: CONTROLLER_KONG_ADMIN_TLS_SKIP_VERIFY
          value: &quot;true&quot;
        - name: CONTROLLER_PUBLISH_SERVICE
          value: kong/kong-proxy
        - name: POD_NAME
          valueFrom:
            fieldRef:
              apiVersion: v1
              fieldPath: metadata.name
        - name: POD_NAMESPACE
          valueFrom:
            fieldRef:
              apiVersion: v1
              fieldPath: metadata.namespace
        image: kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller:1.3
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        livenessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 3
          httpGet:
            path: /healthz
            port: 10254
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 10
          successThreshold: 1
          timeoutSeconds: 1
        name: ingress-controller
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
          name: webhook
          protocol: TCP
        readinessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 3
          httpGet:
            path: /healthz
            port: 10254
            scheme: HTTP
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 10
          successThreshold: 1
          timeoutSeconds: 1
      serviceAccountName: kong-serviceaccount

</code></pre>

<p>Having analysed the comments it looks like changing <code>apiVersion</code> from <code>rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1</code> to <code>rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1</code> has solved the problem temporally, an alternative to this solution is to downgrade the cluster.</p>
