Merge pull request #8604 from mercedes-benz/tobiasgiese/fix-clusterctl-describe-cluster-nil-pointer

🐛 Return error on infra cluster and control plane discovery

Author: k8s-ci-robot

cmd/clusterctl/client/tree/discovery.go

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package tree
 import (
 	"context"
 
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	unstructured "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured"
@@ -83,9 +84,11 @@ func Discovery(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, namespace, name string, opt
 	tree := NewObjectTree(cluster, options.toObjectTreeOptions())
 
 	// Adds cluster infra
-	if clusterInfra, err := external.Get(ctx, c, cluster.Spec.InfrastructureRef, cluster.Namespace); err == nil {
-		tree.Add(cluster, clusterInfra, ObjectMetaName("ClusterInfrastructure"))
+	clusterInfra, err := external.Get(ctx, c, cluster.Spec.InfrastructureRef, cluster.Namespace)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "get InfraCluster reference from Cluster")
 	}
+	tree.Add(cluster, clusterInfra, ObjectMetaName("ClusterInfrastructure"))
 
 	if options.ShowClusterResourceSets {
 		addClusterResourceSetsToObjectTree(ctx, c, cluster, tree)
@@ -119,9 +122,11 @@ func Discovery(ctx context.Context, c client.Client, namespace, name string, opt
 	}
 
 	controlPlaneMachines := selectControlPlaneMachines(machinesList)
-	for i := range controlPlaneMachines {
-		cp := controlPlaneMachines[i]
-		addMachineFunc(controlPlane, cp)
+	if controlPlane != nil {
+		for i := range controlPlaneMachines {
+			cp := controlPlaneMachines[i]
+			addMachineFunc(controlPlane, cp)
+		}
 	}
 
 	machinePoolList, err := getMachinePoolsInCluster(ctx, c, cluster.Namespace, cluster.Name)