MacOS not loading from ~/.kube/config

[james-s-w-clark]

Describe the bug

• kdash presents the application fine, but shows Error:

Unable to obtain Kubernetes client. failed to infer config: in-cluster: (failed to read an incluster environment variable: environment variable not found), kubeconfig: (failed to determine currrent context)

Have to make my terminal tiny to see the whole error. After a few seconds, it changes to:

channel closed

• Also tried with Exported KUBE_CONFIG, KUBECONFIG, kubeconfig, KUBE_CONFIG_PATH as ~/.kube/config in ~/.zshrc, and ran source ~/.zshrc

On the other hand, k9s loads from ~/.kube/config just fine.

I can't see documentation on what setup is required for MacOS. I tried the Docker command, but get the same error. The only difference is that docker and docker-compose are now "Not found" in the CLI Info tab, for the docker container.

Expected behavior MacOS should load from ~/.kube/config by default, like k9s

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• macOS 14.2.1
• iTerm, 3.4.23
• zsh, 5.9
• ? Kubectl Client Version [e.g. 1.19]
  • kubernetes-cli 1.29.0
  • kubectl version --client 1.28.2, Kustomize v5.0.4-0.202....
  • Retried with binary kubectl install, to /usr/local/bin/kubectl - still not detected inside kdash
    • Same for only having fresh Homebrew kubectl install
• ? Kubectl Server Version [e.g. 1.19]
  • kubernetes-cli 1.29.0
• KDash version 0.4.6, installed with Homebrew

Note: kubectl client, kubectl server are Not found from brew-installed kdash