Kubernetes failed to start docker desktop win 10

Docker Desktop
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Almost worked for me. I ended up removing various installations of ubuntu and sticking to only having the wsl installed. Now I finally got a stable dev environment :slight_smile:
I’m running: Docker-desktop with kubernetes and are using devcontainers in vs code.
My issue was both with kubernetes and mounts in devcontainer’s.

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After upgrading from 4.23.0 to 4.28.0, I also experienced the timeouts and EOF-messages. After doing a Reset Kubernetes Cluster (and setting up all the things that my project depends on, such as secrets that were now missing, etc), everything was back up and running again. Thanks for this thread, it works perfectly! I just wish it wasn’t necessary.

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Many of us enabled WSL2 integration and install Ubuntu from MS Store after installing Docker Desktop (at least >= 4.7.1) and starting Kubernetes, and found Kubernetes failed to start and stuck, for me the cause was due to the ‘Ubuntu’ in MS Store defaults to Distro 22.04.X which I believe is not working well with Docker Desktop and its Kubernetes engine.

The solution:

  • run Windows Task Manager to end-task Docker Desktop
  • uninstall ‘Ubuntu’ which is version 22.04.X in Windows installed apps
  • run ‘wsl -l -v’ to look at existing status
  • run ‘wsl -t Ubuntu-22.04’ to terminate Distro ‘Ubuntu-22.04’
  • run ‘wsl --unregister Ubuntu-22.04’ to unregister it
  • from MS Store download and install Ubuntu-20.04
  • run wsl and initialize Ubuntu-20.04
  • run ‘wsl -s Ubuntu-20.04’ to set default to it
  • in Docker Desktop Settings/Resources/WSL integration enable it and set it to default WSL distro ‘Ubuntu-20.04’

Kubernetes will start fine and fast.