Kubernetes error Did you speciy the right host or port

Question

'm trying to run the following command:

kubectl run hello-node --image=gcr.io/PROJECT_ID/hello-node:v1 --port=8080

But I get this error: The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

What's happening here? Why is the CLI trying to connect to localhost?

Answer 1

Try and auto generate your kubeconfig.

Use:

gcloud container clusters get-credentials "CLUSTER NAME"

This seemed to work for me.