kubectl access works fine, but "out-of-cluster-client-configuration" says 'cannot list resource "pods"'

[davidmichaelkarr]

On Windows 11, I have multiple versions of kubectl installed, and I can work with our remote clusters perfectly fine with it (using corresponding version of kubectl), including listing pods.

I'm now experimenting with writing a facade for common steps using client-go. To start, I tried just running the "out-of-cluster-client-configuration" sample after using kubectl to change my context to a cluster that I know I can access. That cluster is running v1.24.9, and I normally use kubectl v1.24.0 to work with it.

When I run the sample, it fails with:

panic: pods is forbidden: User "...@..." cannot list resource "pods" in API group "" at the cluster scope

What might I be missing?

Is the problem here that this build is using, by default, the latest version of client-go, which may not work with our older v1.24.0 k8s cluster? This sample just has the main.go, with no mod file for version specifications.