How to fix "the object has been modified"?

Last Updated: 2024-09-20

You may have seen this error:

the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again

One possible cause is that you applied a dirty manifest (yaml), maybe previously dumped from an existing object, which contains fields such as creationTimestamp, resourceVersion, etc.

You can manually clean up the manifest, or use a command like this:

$ kubectl get KIND NAME -n NAMESPACE -o json | \
    jq "del(.status, .metadata.annotations, .metadata.creationTimestamp,
            .metadata.finalizers, .metadata.generation,
            .metadata.resourceVersion, .metadata.uid)" > object.json