cilium v0.16.17 install immediately returns strconv.ParseUint: parsing "": invalid syntax

[jacoboldroyduvu]

General Information
Cilium Version

$ cilium version
cilium-cli: v0.16.17 compiled with go1.23.1 on linux/amd64
cilium image (default):
cilium image (stable): v1.16.1
cilium image (running): unknown. Unable to obtain cilium version. Reason: release: not found

Kubernetes version

$ kubectl version
Client Version: v1.28.14
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
Server Version: v1.28.14

Platform info
Kubernetes installation using kubeadm on debian 12

$ cat /etc/*release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="12"
VERSION="12 (bookworm)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm
ID=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

Cluster was provisioned using this kubeadm.yaml

apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta3
kind: InitConfiguration
bootstrapTokens:
- groups:
  - system:bootstrappers:kubeadm:default-node-token
  token: ***************
  ttl: 24h0m0s
  usages:
  - signing
  - authentication
nodeRegistration:
  criSocket: unix:///var/run/containerd/containerd.sock
  imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
  name: prod-ctrl01
  taints: null
skipPhases:
  - addon/kube-proxy
---
apiVersion: kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta3
kind: ClusterConfiguration
clusterName: prod
certificatesDir: /etc/kubernetes/pki
controllerManager: {}
dns: {}
etcd:
  local:
    dataDir: /var/lib/etcd
imageRepository: registry.k8s.io
kubernetesVersion: v1.28.14
networking:
  dnsDomain: cluster.local
  serviceSubnet: 172.30.0.0/16
  podSubnet: 172.31.0.0/16
controlPlaneEndpoint: "<myFqdnDNSRecord>:6443"
scheduler: {}
apiServer:
  timeoutForControlPlane: 4m0s
  certSANs:
    - <myFqdnDNSRecord>

Steps to reproduce.

Once cluster was provisioned using kubeadm. without kube-proxy. I've downloaded the ciliumcli using the following script:

	CILIUM_CLI_VERSION=$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cilium/cilium-cli/main/stable.txt)
	CLI_ARCH=amd64
	if [ "$(uname -m)" = "aarch64" ]; then CLI_ARCH=arm64; fi
	curl -L --fail --remote-name-all https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli/releases/download/${CILIUM_CLI_VERSION}/cilium-linux-${CLI_ARCH}.tar.gz{,.sha256sum}
	sha256sum --check cilium-linux-${CLI_ARCH}.tar.gz.sha256sum
	sudo tar xzvfC cilium-linux-${CLI_ARCH}.tar.gz /usr/local/bin
	rm cilium-linux-${CLI_ARCH}.tar.gz{,.sha256sum}

Attempting to run cilium install immediately returns:

strconv.ParseUint: parsing "": invalid syntax

Link so sysdump:
cilium-sysdump-20240918-211107.zip

Reverting to cilium v0.16.16 allows for installation.

wget https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli/releases/download/v0.16.16/cilium-linux-amd64.tar.gz

[michi-covalent]

thanks for the report @jacoboldroyduvu i can reproduce the issue 🙏 . triaging it now...

[michi-covalent]

thank you for reporting the issue. it's fixed in https://github.com/cilium/cilium-cli/releases/tag/v0.16.18 🙏