<p>I am running a Kuberentes cluster in dev environment. I executed deployment files for metrics server, my pod is up and running without any error message. See the output here:</p>
<pre><code>root@master:~/pre-release# kubectl get pod -o wide
NAME                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE   IP           NODE       NOMINATED NODE   READINESS GATES
metrics-server-568697d856-9jshp   1/1     Running   0          10m   10.244.1.5   worker-1   &lt;none&gt;           &lt;none&gt;

</code></pre>
<p>Next when I am checking API service status, it shows up as below</p>
<pre><code>
Name:         v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io
Namespace:
Labels:       k8s-app=metrics-server
Annotations:  &lt;none&gt;
API Version:  apiregistration.k8s.io/v1
Kind:         APIService
Metadata:
  Creation Timestamp:  2021-03-29T17:32:16Z
  Resource Version:    39213
  UID:                 201f685d-9ef5-4f0a-9749-8004d4d529f4
Spec:
  Group:                     metrics.k8s.io
  Group Priority Minimum:    100
  Insecure Skip TLS Verify:  true
  Service:
    Name:            metrics-server
    Namespace:       pre-release
    Port:            443
  Version:           v1beta1
  Version Priority:  100
Status:
  Conditions:
    Last Transition Time:  2021-03-29T17:32:16Z
    Message:               failing or missing response from https://10.105.171.253:443/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1: Get &quot;https://10.105.171.253:443/apis/metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1&quot;: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
    Reason:                FailedDiscoveryCheck
    Status:                False
    Type:                  Available
Events:                    &lt;none&gt;

</code></pre>
<p>Here the metric server deployment code</p>
<pre><code>containers:
      - args:
        - --cert-dir=/tmp
        - --secure-port=443
        - --kubelet-insecure-tls
        - --kubelet-preferred-address-types=InternalIP,Hostname,InternalDNS,ExternalDNS,ExternalIP
        - --kubelet-use-node-status-port
        image: k8s.gcr.io/metrics-server/metrics-server:v0.4.2

</code></pre>
<p>Here the complete code</p>
<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: metrics-server
  namespace: pre-release
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
    rbac.authorization.k8s.io/aggregate-to-admin: &quot;true&quot;
    rbac.authorization.k8s.io/aggregate-to-edit: &quot;true&quot;
    rbac.authorization.k8s.io/aggregate-to-view: &quot;true&quot;
  name: system:aggregated-metrics-reader
rules:
- apiGroups:
  - metrics.k8s.io
  resources:
  - pods
  - nodes
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: system:metrics-server
rules:
- apiGroups:
  - &quot;&quot;
  resources:
  - pods
  - nodes
  - nodes/stats
  - namespaces
  - configmaps
  verbs:
  - get
  - list
  - watch
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: metrics-server-auth-reader
  namespace: pre-release
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: Role
  name: extension-apiserver-authentication-reader
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: metrics-server
  namespace: pre-release
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: metrics-server:system:auth-delegator
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: system:auth-delegator
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: metrics-server
  namespace: pre-release
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: system:metrics-server
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: system:metrics-server
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
  name: metrics-server
  namespace: pre-release
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: metrics-server
  namespace: pre-release
spec:
  ports:
  - name: https
    port: 443
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: https
  selector:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: metrics-server
  namespace: pre-release
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      k8s-app: metrics-server
  strategy:
    rollingUpdate:
      maxUnavailable: 0
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        k8s-app: metrics-server
    spec:
      containers:
      - args:
        - --cert-dir=/tmp
        - --secure-port=443
        - --kubelet-preferred-address-types=InternalIP
        - --kubelet-insecure-tls
        - --kubelet-use-node-status-port
        image: k8s.gcr.io/metrics-server/metrics-server:v0.4.2
        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
        livenessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 3
           httpGet:
            path: /livez
            port: https
            scheme: HTTPS
          periodSeconds: 10
        name: metrics-server
        ports:
        - containerPort: 443
          name: https
          protocol: TCP
        readinessProbe:
          failureThreshold: 3
          httpGet:
            path: /readyz
            port: https
            scheme: HTTPS
          periodSeconds: 10
        securityContext:
          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
          runAsNonRoot: true
          runAsUser: 1000
        volumeMounts:
        - mountPath: /tmp
          name: tmp-dir
      nodeSelector:
        kubernetes.io/os: linux
      priorityClassName: system-cluster-critical
      serviceAccountName: metrics-server
      volumes:
       - emptyDir: {}
        name: tmp-dir
---
apiVersion: apiregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: APIService
metadata:
  labels:
    k8s-app: metrics-server
  name: v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io
spec:
  group: metrics.k8s.io
  groupPriorityMinimum: 100
  insecureSkipTLSVerify: true
  service:
    name: metrics-server
    namespace: pre-release
  version: v1beta1
  versionPriority: 100

</code></pre>
<p>latest error</p>
<pre><code>I0330 09:02:31.705767       1 secure_serving.go:116] Serving securely on [::]:4443

E0330 09:04:01.718135       1 manager.go:111] unable to fully collect metrics: [unable to fully scrape metrics from source kubelet_summary:worker-2: unable to fetch metrics from Kubelet worker-2 (worker-2): Get https://worker-2:10250/stats/summary?only_cpu_and_memory=true: dial tcp: lookup worker-2 on 10.96.0.10:53: no such host, unable to fully scrape metrics from source kubelet_summary:master: unable to fetch metrics from Kubelet master (master): Get https://master:10250/stats/summary?only_cpu_and_memory=true: dial tcp: lookup master on 10.96.0.10:53: read udp 10.244.2.23:41419-&gt;10.96.0.10:53: i/o timeout, unable to fully scrape metrics from source kubelet_summary:worker-1: unable to fetch metrics from Kubelet worker-1 (worker-1): Get https://worker-1:10250/stats/summary?only_cpu_and_memory=true: dial tcp: i/o timeout]

</code></pre>
<p>Could someone please help me to fix the issue.</p>

<p>Following container arguments work for me in our development cluster</p>
<pre><code>containers:
- args:
  - /metrics-server
  - --cert-dir=/tmp
  - --secure-port=443
  - --kubelet-preferred-address-types=InternalIP
  - --kubelet-insecure-tls
</code></pre>
<p>Result of <code>kubectl describe apiservice v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io</code>:</p>
<pre><code>Status:
  Conditions:
    Last Transition Time:  2021-03-29T19:19:20Z
    Message:               all checks passed
    Reason:                Passed
    Status:                True
    Type:                  Available
</code></pre>
<p>Give it a try.</p>
