Pentaho Kettle Kitchen can't find plugin

Question

I've created and ETL for pentaho kettle which successfully runs using Spoon.
But when I try to use Kitchen I get following error:

Unexpected error occurred while launching entry [OLTP to Vertica (Copy Table).0]

Unexpected error during transformation metadata load

Missing plugins found while loading a transformation

Step : VerticaBulkLoader

  at org.pentaho.di.job.Job.execute(Job.java:859) at org.pentaho.di.job.Job.execute(Job.java:596) at org.pentaho.di.job.entries.job.JobEntryJobRunner.run(JobEntryJobRunner.java:71) 

at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

I've tried to set both KETTLE_PLUGIN_PACKAGES and KETTLE_PLUGIN_CLASSES.
Kettle version is 5.0.1.
Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Answer 1

Looks like Kitchen can't find the plugin you've added. Proper installation would entail on placing the plugin within a folder, within the following folder:

versions/pdi-<yourversion>/plugins/steps

Use the dummy step for reference:

versions/pdi-<yourversion>/plugins/steps
|_ DummyPlugin
   |_ DPL.png
   |_ dummy.jar
   |_ plugin.xml

I hope it helps.