Error: running "kustomizer apply inventory spicedb-kubeapi-proxy -k ./deploy --prune --wait --timeout 5m" failed with exit code 1

[MattiaDellOca]

Hey there! I recently discovered SpiceDB at Voxxed Days Ticino 2026 and got curious about using it to enforce resource access in a Kubernetes cluster.

I’m trying to run the project locally, but I’m running into an issue and could use some guidance. When I execute: mage dev:clean I get the following error:

Error: running "kustomizer apply inventory spicedb-kubeapi-proxy -k ./deploy --prune --wait --timeout 5m" failed with exit code 1

Steps to Reproduce

1. Clone the repository.
2. Follow the Development instructions in the README.
   • Make sure kustomizer is installed. I didn’t have this installed initially, which triggered the error:
     Error: failed to run "kustomizer apply inventory spicedb-kubeapi-proxy -k ./deploy --prune --wait --timeout 5m: exec: "kustomizer": executable file not found in $PATH"
     (This requirement isn’t mentioned in the README.)
3. Run mage dev:clean.

My Environment

• macOS version: Darwin Mattias-MacBook-Pro-2.local 24.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Tue Apr 22 19:53:26 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.121.6~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
• Docker version: 29.1.2

Full Output from mage dev:up

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Creating cluster "spicedb-kubeapi-proxy" ...
 ✓ Ensuring node image (kindest/node:v1.27.3) 🖼
 ✓ Preparing nodes 📦  
 ✓ Writing configuration 📜 
 ✓ Starting control-plane 🕹️ 
 ✓ Installing CNI 🔌 
 ✓ Installing StorageClass 💾 
 ✓ Waiting ≤ 5m0s for control-plane = Ready ⏳ 
 • Ready after 17s 💚
Generated kubeconfig for Kind cluster: spicedb-kubeapi-proxy.kubeconfig
Writing Kubeconfig for generated Kind cluster as Secret, will be used by the proxy
Using base cgr.dev/chainguard/static:latest@sha256:9cef3c6a78264cb7e25923bf1bf7f39476dccbcc993af9f4ffeb191b77a7951e for ./cmd/spicedb-kubeapi-proxy
Building ./cmd/spicedb-kubeapi-proxy for linux/amd64
Loading kind.local/spicedb-kubeapi-proxy:1d98539198b143335a369ccd6e68b5619e018445b15d70bc7ac17ca34faa1a71
Loaded kind.local/spicedb-kubeapi-proxy:1d98539198b143335a369ccd6e68b5619e018445b15d70bc7ac17ca34faa1a71
building inventory...
applying 55 manifest(s)...
...
waiting for resources to become ready...
✗ timeout waiting for: [StatefulSet/spicedb-kubeapi-proxy/spicedb-kubeapi-proxy status: 'Failed']
Error: running "kustomizer apply inventory spicedb-kubeapi-proxy -k ./deploy --prune --wait --timeout 5m" failed with exit code 1

I’d greatly appreciate any advice on why this might be failing and how to get the proxy running locally!

Thank you in advance! 😁