kubectl error You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized) when accessing EKS cluster

Question

I have been trying to follow the getting started guide to EKS. When I tried to call kubectl get service I got the message: error: You must be logged in to the server (Unaut

Answer 1

This happens also to me with local environment on minikube, independently of EKS. My problem is related to this issue: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/76774

The solution i adopted is to remove the cache directories of kubectl: rm -rf ~/.kube/{cache,http-cache}. I guess is the only workaround at the time of writing.