Receiving Error "Unexpected response code: 500 [...]' when enabling Admin Partitions – HashiCorp Help Center

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Introduction

Problem

When attempting to enable Admin Partitions on a cluster, the following error occurs:

2023-02-09T16:32:10.471Z [ERROR] Error reading Partition from Consul: name=NAAP error="Unexpected response code: 500 (rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = \"transport: Error while dialing failed to find Consul server for global address \\\"dc1-192.168.166.81:8300\\\"\")"
2023-02-09T16:32:10.471Z [INFO]  Retrying in 1s

Prerequisites

This feature requires version 1.10.0+ of HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) or self-managed Consul Enterprise

Cause

The partitions are unavailable on all of the Consul servers pods; the default Admin Partition is only available on one server pod.

Overview of possible solutions

Solutions:

Create a namespace using consul namespace create -name XXX
Create a partition using consul partition create -name XXX on the server

Outcome

The partition list will be present on all servers

root@amy-kind:~# kc1 exec -it consul-server-0 -- consul partition list
default:
   Description:
      Builtin Default Partition
naap:
root@amy-kind:~# kc1 exec -it consul-server-1 -- consul partition list
default:
   Description:
      Builtin Default Partition
naap:
root@amy-kind:~# kc1 exec -it consul-server-2 -- consul partition list
default:
   Description:
      Builtin Default Partition
naap:

root@amy-kind:~# kc1 exec -it consul-server-0 -- consul catalog services -namespace=client-apps -partition=naap
frontend
frontend-sidecar-proxy

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