While joining worker node with master node it get joined but when I do kubectl get nodes facing this issue “The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?”

Issue facing while creating kubernetes cluster thorugh kubeadm

mloskot February 25, 2023, 10:10am 2

It looks like your’re facing similar problem to this one, so look at those solutions

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