Kubernetes ssh into pods fails - kubernetes

I'm trying to ssh into my pod with this command
kubectl --namespace=default exec -ti pod-name /bin/bash
I get this error:
Content-Type specified (plain/text) must be 'application/json'
The process gets stuck and I have to close the terminal.
I was able to ssh into my pods before I re install kubernetes in my machine. Is this an issue with latest kubernetes releases?

You're not trying to "ssh", you're forwarding your standard input and receiving a standard output over HTTP through the Kubernetes API.
That said, you're using Docker 1.10 whereas Kubernetes doesn't support it yet. Check this out https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/19720
edit:
Kubernetes supports Docker 1.10+ since the 1.3.0 release.

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Waiting for linkerd-viz extension to become available

I have minikube running on AWS EC2 instance, installed linkerd and meshed with the application. And installed linkerd viz, when i try to view the dashboard using the command linkerd viz dashboard & gets the following error. it says socat not found, what excatly it was?
Waiting for linkerd-viz extension to become available
E0705 08:55:19.417583 12977 portforward.go:400] an error occurred forwarding 38591 -> 8085: error forwarding port 8085 to pod 85909524c53355dd249637263867025b33bc1bad4e330df7ff15f3398f0e5d3d, uid : unable to do port forwarding: socat not found
linkerd viz uses kubectl port-forward under the hood, which itself relies on the socat binary to be installed in the kubernetes host. It appears Minikube doesn't provide socat, at least in older versions. You can try a newer Minikube version, or I'd recommend instead switching to kind or k3d which is what the linkerd project uses for testing.

Kubernetes beginner - cannot load the exposed service in browser

I am learning kubernetes and minikube, and I am following this tutorial:
https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/accessing/
But I am running into a problem, I am not able to load the exposed service. Here are the steps I make:
minikube start
The cluster info returns
Kubernetes control plane is running at https://127.0.0.1:50121
CoreDNS is running at https://127.0.0.1:50121/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
Then I am creating a deployment
kubectl create deployment hello-minikube1 --image=k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.4
and exposing it as a service
kubectl expose deployment hello-minikube1 --type=NodePort --port=8080
When I list the services, I dont have a url:
minikube service list
NAMESPACE
NAME
TARGET PORT
URL
default
hello-minikube1
8080
and when I try to get the url, I am not getting it, seems to be empty
minikube service hello-minikube1 --url
This is the response (first line is empty):
🏃 Starting tunnel for service hello-minikube2.
❗ Because you are using a Docker driver on darwin, the terminal needs to be open to run it.
Why I am not getting the url and cannot connect to it? What did I miss?
Thanks!
Please use minikube ip command to get the IP of minikube and then use port number with it.
Also, refer below link:
https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/accessing/#:~:text=minikube%20tunnel%20runs%20as%20a,on%20the%20host%20operating%20system.
As per this issue,the docker driver, which needs an active terminal session. Who are using macOS to use docker driver by default a few releases ago, if no local configuration is found. I believe you can get your original behavior by using the hyperkit driver on macOS:
minikube start --driver=hyperkit
You can also set it to the default using:
minikube config set driver hyperkit
This will help you to solve your issue.

Problems in connection when I try to connect GKE cluster using kubectl

I have a running cluster on Google Cloud Kubernetes engine and I want to access that using kubectl from my local system.
I tried installing kubectl with gcloud but it didn't worked. Then I installed kubectl using apt-get. When I try to see the version of it using kubectl version it says
Unable to connect to server EOF. I also don't have file ~/.kube/config, which I am not sure why. Can someone please tell me what I am missing here? How can I connect to the already running cluster in GKE?
gcloud container clusters get-credentials ... will auth you against the cluster using your gcloud credentials.
If successful, the command adds appropriate configuration to ~/.kube/config such that you can kubectl.

How can I access an internal HTTP port of a Kubernetes node in Google Cloud Platform

I have a load-balanced service running in a Kubernetes cluster on the Google Cloud Platform. The individual servers expose some debugging information via a particular URL path. I would like to be able to access those individual server URLs, otherwise I just get whichever server the load balancer sends the request to.
What is the easiest way to get access to those internal nodes? Ideally, I'd like to be able to access them via a browser, but if I can only access via a command line (e.g. via ssh or Google Cloud Shell) I'm willing to run curl to get the debugging info.
I think the simplest tool for you would be kubectl proxy or maybe even simpler kubectl port-forward. With the first you can use one endpoint and the apiserver ability to proxy to particular pod by providing appropriate URL.
kubectl proxy
After running kubectl proxy you should be able to open http://127.0.0.1:8001/ in your local browser and see a bunch of paths available on the API server. From there you can proceed with URL like ie. http://127.0.0.1:8001/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods/my-pod-name:80/proxy/ which will proxy to port 80 of your particular pod.
kubectl port-forward
Will do similar but directly to port on your pod : kubectl port-forward my-pod-name 8081:80. At that point any request to 127.0.0.1:8081 will be forwarded to your pods port 80
Port Forward can be used as described in answer from Radek, and it has many advantages. The disadvantage is that it is quite slow, and if you are having a script doing many calles, there is another option for you.
kubectl run curl-mark-friedman --image=radial/busyboxplus:curl -i --tty --rm
This will create a new POD on you network with a busybox that includes the curl command. You can now use interactive mode in that POD to execute curl commands to other PODS from within the network.
You can find many images with the tools included that you like on docker hub. If you for example need jq, there is an image for that:
kubectl run curl-jq-mark-friedman --image=devorbitus/ubuntu-bash-jq-curl -i --tty --rm
The --rm option is used to remove the POD when you are done with it. If you want the POD to stay alive, just remove that option. You may then attach to that POD again using:
kubectl get pods | grep curl-mark-friedman <- get your <POD ID> from here.
kubectl attach <POD ID> -c curl-mark-friedman -i -t

k8s API server is down due to misconfiguration, how to bring it up again?

I was trying to add a command line flag to the API server. In my setup, it was running as a daemon set inside the k8s cluster so I got the daemon set manifest using kubectl, updated it, and executed kubectl apply -f apiserver.yaml (I know, this was not a good idea).
Of course, the new yaml file I wrote had an error so the API server is not starting anymore and I can't use kubectl to update it. I have an ssh connection to the node where it was running and I can see how the kubelet is trying to run the apiserver pod every few seconds with the ill-formed command. I am trying to configure the kubelet service to use the correct api-server command but am not being able to do so.
Any ideas?
The API server definition usually lives in /etc/kubernetes/manifests - Edit the configuration there rather than at the API level