# Access to minikube from external adress

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/access-to-minikube-from-external-adress/10703>\
**Category:** microk8s\
**Tags:** minikube\
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/access-to-minikube-from-external-adress/10703 "2020-04-30T12:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![sabriicone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/sabriicone/32/913_2.png) [@sabriicone](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/sabriicone)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/access-to-minikube-from-external-adress/10703/1 "2020-04-30T12:11:11Z")

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### Cluster information:

Kubernetes version:  
Cloud being used: using my personal computer with KVM  
Installation method: brew install minikube  
Host OS: Centos 7.7  
CNI and version: 0.4.0  
CRI and version: not enabled

I’m running minikube on guest of my machine running on kvm.  
but i can only access to service using ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’, so only via localhost ip or name.

i can’t access using guest ip adresse, i can also access using minikube ip:  
Kubernetes master is running at [https://172.17.0.2:8443](https://172.17.0.2:8443)  
KubeDNS is running at [https://172.17.0.2:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy](https://172.17.0.2:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy)

i can’t find any way to access using guest ip.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![sabriicone](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/sabriicone/32/913_2.png) [@sabriicone](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/sabriicone)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/access-to-minikube-from-external-adress/10703/2 "2020-04-30T13:00:40Z")

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i tried to force kube ip address via .kube/config.  
But it was overriden by minikube process when restarting

! Unable to restart cluster, will reset it: getting k8s client: client config: client config: error loading config file “/home/mini/.kube/config”: yaml: line 6: mapping values are not allowed in this context  
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X startup failed: Failed to update kubeconfig file.: could not read config: Error decoding config from data: apiVersion: v1  
clusters:

- cluster:  
certificate-authority: /home/mini/.minikube/ca.crt  
server: [https://192.168.122.248:8443](https://192.168.122.248:8443)  
name: minikube  
contexts:
- context:  
cluster: minikube  
user: minikube  
name: minikube  
current-context: minikube  
kind: Config  
preferences: {}  
users:
- name: minikube  
user:  
client-certificate: /home/mini/.minikube/profiles/minikube/client.crt  
client-key: /home/mini/.minikube/profiles/minikube/client.key  
: yaml: line 6: mapping values are not allowed in this context

- 
- minikube is exiting due to an error. If the above message is not useful, open an issue:
  - [https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/new/choose)

driver= docker