The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - kubernetes

Question

I was able to cluster 2 nodes together in Kubernetes. The master node seems to be running fine but running any command on the worker node results in the error: "The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?"
From master (node1),
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS AGE VERSION
node1 Ready 23h v1.7.3
node2 Ready 23h v1.7.3
From worker (node 2),
$ kubectl get nodes
The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?
$ telnet localhost 8080
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms
I am not sure how to fix this issue. Any help is appreciated.
On executing,"journalctl -xeu kubelet" I see:
"CNI failed to retrieve network namespace path: Cannot find network namespace for the terminated container", but this seems to be related to installing a pod network ... which I am not able to because of the above error.
Thanks!

Answer 1

kubectl interfaces with kube-apiserver for cluster management. The command works on the master node because that's where kube-apiserver runs. On the worker nodes, only kubelet and kube-proxy is running.
In fact, kubectl is supposed to be run on a client (eg. laptop, desktop) and not on the kubernetes nodes.

Answer 2

from master you need ~/.kube/config pass this file as argument for kubectl command. Copy the config file to other server or laptop then pass the argument as for kubectl command
eg:
kubectl --kubeconfig=~/.kube/config

Answer 3

This worked for me after executing following commands:
$ sudo mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
$ sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
$ sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config

Answer 4

As a hint, the message being prompted indicates its related to network.
So one potential answer could also be, which worked for my resolution, is to have a look at the key cluster value for context within contexts.
My error was that I had placed an incorrect cluster name there.
Having the appropriate cluster name is crucial to finding it for respective context and the error will disappear.

Answer 5

To solve the issue The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?, you may be missing a step.
My Fix:
On MacOS if you install K8s with brew, you still need to brew install minikube, afterwards you should run minikube start. This will start your cluster.
Run the command kubectl cluster-info and you should get a happy path response similar to:
Kubernetes control plane is running at https://127.0.0.1:63000
KubeDNS is running at https://127.0.0.1:63308/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
Kubernetes install steps: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl-macos/
Minikube docs: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/

Answer 6

Ensure what context is selected if you're running Kubernetes in the Docker Desktop.
Once you've selected it right, you'll be able to run the kubectl commands without any exception:
% kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes control plane is running at https://kubernetes.docker.internal:6443
CoreDNS is running at https://kubernetes.docker.internal:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.
% kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
docker-desktop Ready control-plane,master 2d11h v1.22.5