Kubernetes on Docker for Windows Error

Question

I’m using windows 10 with Hyper-V enabled and I have installed the Edge version of Docker for Windows 18.05.0-ce along with Kubernetes.
On the other system a kubectl context was created, but on this new machine it was not.

> kubectl config get-contexts
CURRENT   NAME      CLUSTER   AUTHINFO   NAMESPACE
> kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"10", GitVersion:"v1.10.3", GitCommit:"2bba0127d85d5a46ab4b778548be28623b32d0b0", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-05-21T09:17:39Z", GoVersion:"go1.9.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"windows/amd64"}

Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp [::1]:8080: connectex: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

Why isn’t Docker for Windows creating the context?

Answer 1

This issue is with docker for windows when the HOMEDRIVE is set.

Just adjust the $KUBECONFIG environment variable to C:\Users\my_username\.kube\config

This will work.