others-how to solve Unable to connect to the server: tls: first record does not look like a TLS handshake

Problem

When we kubectl as follows, sometimes, we get this error or exception:

root@launch-advisor:~# kubectl get nodes

Unable to connect to the server: tls: first record does not look like a TLS handshake

Environment

  • Docker: Server Version: 19.03.13

  • Kubectl version

    Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"17", GitVersion:"v1.17.3", GitCommit:"06ad960bfd03b39c8310aaf92d1e7c12ce618213", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-02-13T18:06:54Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.8", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"}
  
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.6", GitCommit:"dff82dc0de47299ab66c83c626e08b245ab19037", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-07-15T16:51:04Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

Reason

This error :

Unable to connect to the server: tls: first record does not look like a TLS handshake

is caused by the network proxy settings of your client.

Solution

Because I am using spechtLite as system proxy as follows:

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A proxy’s definition from wikipedia.org is as follows :

a proxy server is a server application or appliance that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from servers that provide those resources.[1] A proxy server thus functions on behalf of the client when requesting service, potentially masking the true origin of the request to the resource server.

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If the proxy fails, then the connection would fail, So I choose to stop the proxy server as follows:

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Restart the terminal , and then re-execute the command as follows:

➜  ~ k get nodes
NAME              STATUS   ROLES               AGE   VERSION
bswen-k8s-app2    Ready    worker              8d   v1.18.6
bswen-k8s-app3    Ready    worker              8d   v1.18.6
bswen-k8s-app4    Ready    worker              8d   v1.18.6
bswen-k8s-app5    Ready    worker              8d   v1.18.6
bswen-k8s-app1    Ready    worker              8d   v1.18.6
➜  ~

Everything works!