Summary

microk8s status returns 0 when the server is down.

$ microk8s status --yaml ; echo $?
microk8s is not running, try microk8s start
0

What Should Happen Instead?

I would expect it to return non-zero, so that I don't need to search for text in the output.

This also complicates my life when trying to directly parse its output as yaml.

Reproduction Steps

1. It happens always, both and without --yaml. Retval is always zero.

Introspection Report

Probably not relevant.

Can you suggest a fix?

Yes, simply return non-zero when the server is down.
Fix scripts/wrappers/common/utils.py:

def exit_if_stopped():
    stoppedLockFile = os.path.expandvars("${SNAP_DATA}/var/lock/stopped.lock")
    if os.path.isfile(stoppedLockFile):
        print("microk8s is not running, try microk8s start")
        **exit(0)**

Are you interested in contributing with a fix?

Yes, it's about changing that zero by a one.
I can make a PR if you wish.