Santoshdts So what happens for me is that after a while running kubctl get nodes returns: kubectl get nodes The connection to the server 192.168.64.41:6443 was refused - did you specify the right host or port? The api server doesn't show in the ps output. I think after some time kubelet restarts the api server I get this : kubectl get nodes Error from server (Timeout): the server was unable to return a response in the time allotted, but may still be processing the request (get nodes) And when I look around, the /var/log/controller and look at the api server response, I get very random log with errors that are not correlated.