Why my operator is showing reconciling in progress and nothing gets deployed

[npandeya]

When I look at the logs its shows reconciling but cluster never gets deployed. Can anyone please help me?
Its on EKS and strimzi version is 0.34
2023-11-01 16:40:00 INFO AbstractOperator:380 - Reconciliation #509(timer) Kafka(kafka/test-cluster): Reconciliation is in progress
2023-11-01 16:40:00 INFO AbstractOperator:380 - Reconciliation #27215(timer) Kafka(kafka/cloudtrail-cluster): Reconciliation is in progress
2023-11-01 16:41:00 INFO AbstractOperator:380 - Reconciliation #509(timer) Kafka(kafka/test-cluster): Reconciliation is in progress
2023-11-01 16:41:00 INFO AbstractOperator:380 - Reconciliation #27215(timer) Kafka(kafka/cloudtrail-cluster): Reconciliation is in progress
2023-11-01 16:41:58 INFO ClusterOperator:139 - Triggering periodic reconciliation for namespace kafka-operator
2023-11-01 16:42:00 INFO ClusterOperator:139 - Triggering periodic reconciliation for namespace kafka
2023-11-01 16:42:00 INFO AbstractOperator:380 - Reconciliation #509(timer) Kafka(kafka/test-cluster): Reconciliation is in progress
2023-11-01 16:42:00 INFO AbstractOperator:380 - Reconciliation #27215(timer) Kafka(kafka/cloudtrail-cluster): Reconciliation is in progress

[scholzj]

That sounds like some bug. You should try to restart the operator. And if you have a full DEBUG level from when it got stuck, it might be helpful to investigate the issue. (But there were some fixed which might have helped with this since 0.34 if I remember correctly, so upgrade might be something to consider as well.)