Hi Team I have installed Rancher Desktop Version 1 3 0 on my rancher-users #rancher-desktop

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brave-policeman-40622

06/01/2022, 4:35 PM

Hi Team, I have installed Rancher Desktop ( Version: 1.3.0) on my mac for the first time. Getting the following error with kubectl config. Appreciate any help

~ nerdctl -v
nerdctl version 0.19.0
➜  ~ kubectl config current-context
I0601 09:02:51.539733   35360 versioner.go:58] invalid configuration: no configuration has been provided
error: current-context is not set

quick-keyboard-83126

06/01/2022, 4:42 PM

You could try:

kubectl config get-contexts

or, alternatively, click the Rancher icon in the menu bar and select a kubernetes context (e.g.

rancher-desktop

)

brave-policeman-40622

06/01/2022, 4:43 PM

Thank you. It worked

fast-garage-66093

06/01/2022, 5:08 PM

The only way I've been able to reproduce this issue is when the

~/.kube/config

file already exists, and the

current-context

property is set to the empty string:

current-context: ""

If the file doesn't exist, or if

current-context

is just

null

, it will automatically be set to

rancher-desktop

quick-keyboard-83126

06/01/2022, 5:10 PM

I can get it w/ the file present but no line

current-context:

(i commented mine out)

fast-garage-66093

06/01/2022, 5:11 PM

Really? I have to try that. I set

current-context: ~

, and the value was set afterwards

If I delete the line, it will be set too. Now going to test with commenting it out, but that would be really surprising if that is handled differently from deleting the line.

quick-keyboard-83126

06/01/2022, 5:14 PM

Client Version: <http://version.Info|version.Info>{Major:"1", Minor:"23", GitVersion:"v1.23.3", GitCommit:"816c97ab8cff8a1c72eccca1026f7820e93e0d25", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-01-25T21:25:17Z", GoVersion:"go1.17.6", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"}

fast-garage-66093

06/01/2022, 5:15 PM

Yeah, commented out line disappears and regular line is added in.

quick-keyboard-83126

06/01/2022, 5:15 PM

For me, i get the same complaint if i don't have the line at all

fast-garage-66093

06/01/2022, 5:16 PM

Did you wait long enough? The file is only updated once k3s is running

quick-keyboard-83126

06/01/2022, 5:16 PM

oh, i don't have k3s enabled 🙂

fast-garage-66093

06/01/2022, 5:16 PM

In that case there is no kube context we could set it to 🙂

quick-keyboard-83126

06/01/2022, 5:16 PM

And the reporter didn't mention k3s 🙂

fast-garage-66093

06/01/2022, 5:18 PM

Well,

kubectl

can only work (meaningfully) if you run

k3s

, otherwise you are limited to

info

and

context

subcommands, which are pretty useless on their own

Still curious how you can end up with the empty string in there, but it doesn't really matter; I'll just file an issue to treat it the same as being unset.

quick-keyboard-83126

06/01/2022, 5:55 PM

We use kubectl with various gke clusters...

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