The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

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Hi.
Check that the api server is actually running and hasn’t crashed:

docker ps | grep kube-apiserver

But the most likely problem and the one that usually gets me is that you don’t have a .kube directory with the right config in it. Try this:

  mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
  sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
  sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config
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