Int value of "secret_ttl_seconds" in values.yaml causing init container to fail #51
Description
We attempted to set up the JFrog Credential Provider using Helm on an EKS environment. After installation, the DaemonSet pods failed to start, entering a CrashLoopBackOff during the initialization phase.
Observed Behavior
The pods remain in an error state:
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
secret-provider-jfrog-credential-provider-daemonset-4dtgt 0/1 Init:CrashLoopBackOff 20 (4m36s ago) 82m
secret-provider-jfrog-credential-provider-daemonset-6vj8p 0/1 Init:CrashLoopBackOff 20 (4m39s ago) 82m
secret-provider-jfrog-credential-provider-daemonset-p8tkv 0/1 Init:CrashLoopBackOff 20 (4m52s ago) 82m
Logs
Init Container Logs:
The binary downloads and copies correctly, but the configuration update fails:
Downloading the jfrog-credential-provider binary (https://releases.jfrog.io/artifactory/run/jfrog-credentials-provider/1.0.0/jfrog-credential-provider-linux-amd64)
Successfully downloaded the jfrog-credential-provider binary from Artifactory
Making the jfrog-credential-provider binary executable
Copying the /etc/jfrog-provider.json configuration file to /host/etc/eks/image-credential-provider/jfrog-provider.json
Updating the kubelet configuration failed
Provider Debug Logs:
The failure is caused by a JSON unmarshalling error:
[JFROG CREDENTIALS PROVIDER] 2026/03/11 08:47:28 logger.go:40: [INFO] Google metadata server response status code: 404
[JFROG CREDENTIALS PROVIDER] 2026/03/11 08:47:28 logger.go:40: [INFO] Config backed up to /etc/eks/image-credential-provider/config.json.backup
[JFROG CREDENTIALS PROVIDER] 2026/03/11 08:47:28 logger.go:52: [EXIT] failed to parse JSON file /etc/eks/image-credential-provider/jfrog-provider.json: json: cannot unmarshal number into Go struct field EnvVar.env.value of type string
We manually updated our Helm values to wrap secret_ttl_seconds in quotes (changing the type from integer to string), which allowed the pods to initialize successfully.
Reporting this so the Helm chart or the provider's Go struct can be updated to handle numerical inputs more gracefully.