@kapa.ai I have been trying to deploy a community version Airbyte Platform v1.8.5 in my GKE cluster using helm chart. Getting following error in airbyte-workload-launcher module. Do I need to create a region without organizationId?

Failed to obtain or add access token
java.lang.Exception: Token request failed with HTTP code 500

The knowledge sources don’t give a complete, step‑by‑step fix for this specific error on OSS 1.8.5, but they do provide some relevant clues. 1. The error itself is known and related to dataplane / token generation Similar errors (

Failed to obtain or add dataplane access token

with HTTP 500) have been reported on 1.6.x and 1.8.x Helm/abctl installs. [[Could not deploy 1.6.0](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/58587)] In those cases, the problem was not about “region without organizationId”, but about dataplane auth / secrets / token generation. 2. Regions and

organizationId

For self‑managed / OSS Enterprise‑style setups, creating a region via

/api/public/v1/regions

requires an

organizationId

. In most OSS/Enterprise self‑managed docs, this is

00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

. [[Multi‑region 1.8](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/1.8/enterprise-setup/multi-region#step-1)] There is no indication in the docs that you should or even can create a region without `organizationId`; it is documented as required. 3. Known 1.8.x token issues - There is a known “Invalid client id or token” / token generation problem on 1.8.0–1.8.2 that was reported as fixed in 1.8.3+ for the

/api/public/v1/applications/token

endpoint. [[getting error when getting token](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/65592)] - Another issue shows that even on 1.8.5 some users still had missing

client_id

in the UI and token problems, and the maintainers indicated this should be resolved in 2.0.0. [[Token generation fails after abctl install](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/65595)] 4. Secrets / auth configuration can break dataplane token flow In 1.6.x Helm installs, users seeing the same “Failed to obtain or add dataplane access token” error found it was related to how the

airbyte-auth-secrets

secret and instance admin auth were configured. One workaround was to not pre‑create and not externally manage that secret, and to comment out these Helm values so the chart manages them: [[Could not deploy 1.6.0](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/58587)]

text    global.auth.instanceAdmin.secretName    global.auth.instanceAdmin.emailSecretKey    global.auth.instanceAdmin.passwordSecretKey

When those were commented out, the workload‑launcher became healthy. --- ### Direct answers to your questions - “Do I need to create a region without organizationId?” Based on the docs, no:

organizationId

is required when creating a region; for OSS/Enterprise‑style setups it is typically

00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

. [[Multi‑region 1.8](https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/1.8/enterprise-setup/multi-region#step-1)] - What is more likely causing the 500 on token request? From the issues, it is more likely related to: - Dataplane / workload API auth configuration, or - Secrets such as

airbyte-auth-secrets

and instance admin auth values being pre‑created or misconfigured, or - Known token bugs in 1.8.x Helm/abctl deployments. [[Could not deploy 1.6.0](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/58587); [Token generation fails after abctl install](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/65595)] Because the sources don’t include a definitive 1.8.5‑specific fix, I can’t give a guaranteed resolution, but based on them I would: 1. Ensure you are using the documented

organizationId

when creating regions (don’t omit it). 2. Check whether you have manually created or externally managed

airbyte-auth-secrets

or overridden

global.auth.instanceAdmin.*

in your Helm values; if so, try removing those overrides so Helm manages them. 3. If the problem persists, consider testing with a newer Airbyte version (2.0.0+) where maintainers state related token issues are resolved. [[Token generation fails after abctl install](https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/65595)]

@kapa.ai I don't have

organizationId

then how would I create region and dataplane?

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