Error: Kubernetes cluster unreachable: Get “http://localhost:8080/version?timeout=32s”: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8080: connect: connection refused

December 9, 2023 by Tarik

I’ve bumped into the same issue when installing rancher on K3s, setting KUBECONFIG helped.

export KUBECONFIG=/etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml