No watch events are generated using minikube

[dcheese]

When using minikube, we are not able receive pod change events when providing the watch parameter. It just hangs, with no response. It does work when we try try to curl against a full kubernetes server/installation.

kubctl proxy &
curl http://localhost:8001/api/v1/pods?watch=true

Is there something we need configure with minikube to get this to work?

[dlorenc]

Hmm, this worked for me:

In one terminal:
$ kubectl proxy

In another:
$ curl http://localhost:8001/api/v1/pods?watch=true

Then in a third:
$ kubectl create -f busybox.yaml

Where busybox.yaml is:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: busybox
spec:
  containers:
  - image: gcr.io/dlorenc-vmtest4/foo
    command:
      - sleep
      - "3600"
    imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
    name: busybox
  imagePullSecrets:
  - name: secret.json
  restartPolicy: Always

I see output in the curl terminal.

So this should work out of the box in minikube. Do you see anything running in Minikube with kubectl get pods --all-namespaces?

[andrewgdavis]

I had experienced missing events also. #368 (comment)

I updated to 0.7.1 and havn't see the issue since.

[hsaputra]

This is reproducible for me too

[hsaputra]

Also, we cannot to kubectl describe to pods pending state

[erez-rabih]

I can confirm that's also happening to me
minikube version: v0.19.0

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[msidler1701]

dlorenc's example above worked great for me. The only change was I pasted the "http://localhost:8001/api/v1/pods?watch=true" in a browser...curl didn't show anything. In the browser it was continously updating. All this was with Minikube running. Attached is a sample events output. Rename to JSON extension as you can't copy a .json file here.
K8s-events.txt