Unable to resolve hostname using `kubectl logs` or `kubectl exec` - kubernetes

I've created a Kubernetes cluster using CoreOS on AWS and I'm having trouble communicating with nodes from the master.
For example, operations like kubectl exec or kubectl logs fail an error similar to the following:
Error from server: dial tcp: lookup ip-XXX-X-XXX-XXX.eu-west-1.compute.internal: no such host
I've found some issues on Github that describe the problem so I know the team knows about this bug, but I would like to ask here if its possible to use some workaround until it gets addressed somehow.
One workaround mentioned was to use the --hostname-override flag but as I'm on AWS, this flag is ignored (see #22984)
Related issues on GitHub: #22770 #22063.

Have you made sure you're using the right context?
kubectl config use-context my-cluster-name

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Permission denied using kubectl but able to run helm

I am facing permission denied errors when using kubectl for all commands, be get pods or apply, but I am able to use helm and login with k9s to perform destructive actions. I am using the same context for all of these actions.
kubectl get nodes
# error: You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized)
kubectl apply -f some-manifest.yaml
# error: You must be logged in to the server (the server has asked for the client to provide credentials)
Does anyone have a hint as to why this is happening or what to look further into? I am using a managed k8s on Vultr, a smaller cloud provider.
Don't know what specifically the issue was but I rebuilt my .kube/config file slowly with all my contexts and it ended up working again.
Very strange though that helm worked and kubectl didn't though...
I am pretty sure that this is a "kubernetes context" problem
Check the solution here: helm and kubectl context mismatch
Solution for k9s can be found here: https://k9scli.io/topics/commands/

EKS kubectl logs <podname> suddenly stop working

I have pods running on eks, and pulling the container logs worked fine couple days ago. but today when i tried to run kubectl logs podname i get a tls error.
Error from server: Get "https://host:10250/containerLogs/dev/pod-748b649458-bczdq/server": remote error: tls: internal error
does anyone know how to fix this? the other answers on stackoverflow seems to suggest deleting the kubenetes cluster and rebuilding it...... is there no better solutions?
This could probably due to some firewall rules or security settings that were introduced. I would encourage you to check it along with the following troubleshooting steps -
Ensure all EKS nodes are in running state.
Restart nodes as required
Checking networking configuration and see if other kubectl commands are running.

Recovery from kubectl crash

What is the best way to troubleshoot when kubectl doesn't responde or exit with timeout? How to get it work again?
I'm having my kubectl as well as helm on my cluster down when installing a helm chart.
General advice:
Check if your kubectl is connecting to the correct kube-api endpoint. You could take a look at your kubeconfig. It is by default stored in $HOME/.kube. Try simple CURL to make sure that it is not DNS problem, etc.
Take a look at your nodes' logs by ssh into the nodes that you have: see this for more details instructions and log locations.
Once you have more information, you could get yourself started in the investigation of problems.

Kubectl documentation without starting Kubernetes

I have installed a K8S cluster on laptop using Kubeadm and VirtualBox. It seems a bit odd that the cluster has to be up and running to see the documentation as shown below.
praveensripati#praveen-ubuntu:~$ kubectl explain pods
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp 192.168.0.31:6443: connect: no route to host
Any workaround for this?
See "kubectl explain — #HeptioProTip"
Behind the scenes, kubectl just made an API request to my Kubernetes cluster, grabbed the current Swagger documentation of the API version running in the cluster, and output the documentation and object types.
Try kubectl help as an offline alternative, but that won't be as complete (limite to kubectl itself).
So the rather sobering news is that AFAIK there's not out-of-the box way how to do it, though you could totally write a kubectl plugin (it has become rather trivial now in 1.12). But for now, the best I can offer is the following:
# figure out which endpoint kubectl uses to retrieve docs:
$ kubectl -v9 explain pods
# from above I learn that in my case it's apparently
# https://192.168.64.11:8443/openapi/v2 so let's curl that:
$ curl -k https://192.168.64.11:8443/openapi/v2 > resources-docs.json
From here you can, for example, use jq to query for the descriptions. It's not as nice as a proper explain, but kinda is a good enough workaround until someone writes an docs offline query kubectl plugin.
The 'explain' documentation lives in the kube-apiserver and its resource definitions. Hence the need to connect to it through kubectl explain to get any docs. This is different from the standard very basic cli help from kubectl where it's in the kubectl Golang code.
So no workaround really other than setting up a dummy Kubernetes cluster and have kubectl point to it. Please note that CRDs help might not be available since they live in the deployed CRDs themselves.

kubernetes pods spawn across all servers but kubectl only shows 1 running and 1 pending

I have new setup of Kubernetes and I created replication with 2. However what I see when I do " kubectl get pods' is that one is running another is "pending". Yet when I go to my 7 test nodes and do docker ps I see that all of them are running.
What I think is happening is that I had to change the default insecure port from 8080 to 7080 (the docker app actually runs on 8080), however I don't know how to tell if I am right, or where else to look.
Along the same vein, is there any way to setup config for kubectl where I can specify the port. Doing kubectl --server="" is a bit annoying (yes I know I can alias this).
If you changed the API port, did you also update the nodes to point them at the new port?
For the kubectl --server=... question, you can use kubectl config set-cluster to set cluster info in your ~/.kube/config file to avoid having to use --server all the time. See the following docs for details:
http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_config.html
http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_config_set-cluster.html
http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_config_set-context.html
http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/user-guide/kubectl/kubectl_config_use-context.html