Kustomize Error: trouble configuring builtin PatchTransformer with config

Symptom:

When we run kustomize build , we got below:

Error: trouble configuring builtin PatchTransformer with config: `

patch: users_namespace_label_required_tp_patch.yaml

target:

  kind: K8sRequiredLabelsPodtemplate

`: unable to parse SM or JSON patch from [users_namespace_label_required_tp_patch.yaml]

Solution:

In the kustomization.yaml, there is patch section like below

resources:

- ../../new-namespace-base/

patches:

- patch: users_namespace_label_required_tp_patch.yaml

  target:

    kind: K8sRequiredLabelsPodtemplate

patch is the typo, it should be path.

patches:

- path: users_namespace_label_required_tp_patch.yaml

  target:

    kind: K8sRequiredLabelsPodtemplate