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I installed Kubernetes in RHEL 7.x. I expect kubectl commands to work without errors. Port 8080 is not being blocked from my client workstation to the RedHat server with Kubernetes. I tried several things to diagnose the problem.

I ran this command (to reproduce the problem): kubectl version

I saw this:

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"7", GitVersion:"v1.7.5", GitCommit:"17d7182a7ccbb167074be7a87f0a68bd00d58d97", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2017-08-31T09:14:02Z", GoVersion:"go1.8.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"} The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

The error about the port being refused is confusing me.

I ran this command: nmap -p 8080 localhost

It shows that port 8080 is merely closed -- but not blocked.

I have no admin.conf file in /etc/kubernetes/. Did I do something wrong? How can I use kubectl commands without getting the error "The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?"

Every kubectl command I run returns this error.

How do I get the admin.conf file? I was thinking of trying to install gcloud. But "sudo yum install gcloud" did not work. The package could not be found. Maybe I don't need to bother with admin.conf or the gcloud utility.

How do I get kubectl commands to work without that error about the connection being refused on port 8080?

Jermoe
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8080 is the insecure port. meaning you don't need auth or ssl. If you want to enable port 8080 you need to run the apiserver with the following flag. 

--insecure-port 8080
Mike
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