Coder.com•2mo ago

For the coder install into EKS, how do I set the initial admin credentials? I cannot log in.

I have installed Coder into my EKS cluster and have the page up and ready but I have no idea what the login is (i dont see any secrets in K8S holding it) and I dont know what the initial values would be if there was a default.

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Codercord•2mo ago

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Product

Coder (v2)

Platform

Linux

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meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

I tried setting the following:

superAdmin:
  passwordSecret:
    name: coder-super-admin-password

superAdmin:
  passwordSecret:
    name: coder-super-admin-password

I verified that the secret has a password field and I know what it decodes to. I still cannot login with the password. Admin is the username I am using.. I hope thats correct. No errors in the pod except my auth failures.

2025-02-26 17:08:43.583 [WARN]  (api)   <./product/coder/service/coderd/logger.go:142>  (*API).InitHTTPRoutes.Middleware.func13.1       POST    {"host": "coder.dpg-solutions.com", "path": "/auth/basic/login", "proto": "HTTP/1.1", "remote_addr": "10.10.1.84", "took": "1.050499037s", "status_code": 401, "latency_ms": 1050} ...
  "response_body": {
                        "error": {
                                "msg": "Incorrect login. Verify that the login and password are correct, or contact your Administrator.",
                                "code": "empty"
                        }
                   }
2025-02-26 17:08:43.588 [INFO]  (api)   <./product/coder/pkg/access/audit/audit.go:164> CommitLog.func1 AUDIT   {"audit_log": {"time": "2025-02-26T17:08:42.53526Z", "user": {"id": "admin", "name": "admin", "username": "", "roles": ["site-admin"], "avatar_hash": "ab2f9f305ce6609d6d650e63a0ea4ad9a7f48d8396c4aa34579088385f0587a5", "email": "admin", "created_at": "2025-02-26T16:20:07.451269Z", "updated_at": "2025-02-26T16:20:08.579335Z"}, "user_agent": {"ip_address": "10.10.1.84", "os": "Windows 10", "browser": "Chrome 133.0.0", "device": "Other"},

2025-02-26 17:08:43.583 [WARN]  (api)   <./product/coder/service/coderd/logger.go:142>  (*API).InitHTTPRoutes.Middleware.func13.1       POST    {"host": "coder.dpg-solutions.com", "path": "/auth/basic/login", "proto": "HTTP/1.1", "remote_addr": "10.10.1.84", "took": "1.050499037s", "status_code": 401, "latency_ms": 1050} ...
  "response_body": {
                        "error": {
                                "msg": "Incorrect login. Verify that the login and password are correct, or contact your Administrator.",
                                "code": "empty"
                        }
                   }
2025-02-26 17:08:43.588 [INFO]  (api)   <./product/coder/pkg/access/audit/audit.go:164> CommitLog.func1 AUDIT   {"audit_log": {"time": "2025-02-26T17:08:42.53526Z", "user": {"id": "admin", "name": "admin", "username": "", "roles": ["site-admin"], "avatar_hash": "ab2f9f305ce6609d6d650e63a0ea4ad9a7f48d8396c4aa34579088385f0587a5", "email": "admin", "created_at": "2025-02-26T16:20:07.451269Z", "updated_at": "2025-02-26T16:20:08.579335Z"}, "user_agent": {"ip_address": "10.10.1.84", "os": "Windows 10", "browser": "Chrome 133.0.0", "device": "Other"},

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Phorcys•2mo ago

hey, this is pretty weird, are you not met with a "new instance" page that asks you to set the credentials? there are no default credentials

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

Nope, just a login page. This is my first experience with coder. I could easily be missing something that should be obvious...

Phorcys•2mo ago

you are installing via helm right?

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

Yes Only thing I modified was to use my own postgres database and ingress. Also provided the secret for admin I mentioned above.

Phorcys•2mo ago

superAdmin is not handled in the chart's code, so i don't think it had any effect whatsoever

Phorcys•2mo ago

you should be seeing something like this

Phorcys•2mo ago

could you send a screenshot of your login page?

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

Hmmm.. I will get that in here tonight. Out right now and I deleted the cluster before I left.

Phorcys•2mo ago

another thing, would you be able to wipe any PVCs for your Coder instance (and wipe the database too) and restart it to get the first time logs?

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

I'll do better because I also rebuild eks from scratch when I redeploy.

Phorcys•2mo ago

nice could you also get the Coder version you're running?

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

Yes, I will also share my values

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

Version: v1.44.6 3051397a1 service: type: ClusterIP superAdmin: passwordSecret: name: coder-super-admin-password postgres: default: enable: false host: "postgres-release-postgresql.postgres-db.svc.cluster.local" port: "5432" user: "postgres" database: "postgres" passwordSecret: "coder-db-url" connector: "postgres" sslMode: "disable" ingress: enable: true className: alb annotations: kubernetes.io/ingress.class: alb alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internet-facing alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: ip alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-path: /login alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/healthcheck-port: traffic-port alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/certificate-arn: arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:000000000000:certificate/00000000-7131-40bb-8def-00000039d491 alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: '[{"HTTPS":443}]' alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: HTTP host: coder.xxx-xxxxxxxxx.com Image of what I get after installation:

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

Anyone else out there got any ideas? Not sure why I am not getting the setup page... Finally got in... found some commands to reset the admin password and that let me in! New problem now is that hte damn license its asking for is supposed to be json but the license I got when signing up is definitely not json... its encoded or something. i decoded it, at least it looks valid... this is fun right?

Scott•2mo ago

@meatbaker33w - You are on a very old coder version. Coder is at v2.19.0. What steps did you take to get Coder running in your k8s setup? Was it this? This is important:

helm repo add coder-v2 https://helm.coder.com/v2

helm repo add coder-v2 https://helm.coder.com/v2

Phorcys•2mo ago

oh yeah that makes sense, you are installing the chart for the v1 version, which has been sunsetted could you send me the steps you've followed to get to this point? this way we can edit the docs to make it clearer you should use v2

meatbaker33wOP•2mo ago

I finally got it all working, thank you everyone for all of your help!

Phorcys•2mo ago

nice! closing the issue, feel free to create another one if you need help!

Codercord•2mo ago

@Phorcys closed the thread.

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