Config not found in /home/$USER/.kube/config

Question

When I run k3s kubectl version

$ k3s kubectl version
W0730 19:46:32.066086   17273 loader.go:222] Config not found: /home/ecarroll/.kube/config
[...]
The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

How can I fix this problem?

Answer 1

This is another error message relate to your kubectl config. In this case you likely have an environmental variable KUBECONFIG pointing to a location that doesn't exist.

First confirm this is set to the same location above that didn't exist

echo $KUBECONFIG

If it's already set, simply regenerate a kubeconfig for k3s with

mkdir ~/.kube 2> /dev/null
sudo k3s kubectl config view --raw > "$KUBECONFIG"
chmod 600 "$KUBECONFIG"